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Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
J. W. Boldeman, J. Fréhaut, R. L. Walsh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 4 | August 1977 | Pages 430-436
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27060
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Corrections of the large liquid scintillator measurements by Boldeman et al. and Soleilhac et al. for the delayed gamma rays from fission have produced consistent values for the average number of prompt neutrons () produced in the fission of 235U. The absolute value of for thermal-neutron fission is 2.389 ± 0.009, and the energy dependence is approximately linear. The data do not support the existence of fine structure between 200 and 600 keV nor the broad step-like structural dependence found in recent evaluations. However, there is the suggestion of a slight flattening of the curve representing the data between 250 and 600 keV.