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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
B. I. Spinrad, C. H. Wu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 3 | June 1978 | Pages 421-424
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27224
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Measurements of independent fission product yields from thermal-neutron fission of 235U, 239Pu, 233U, and 241Pu have been compared with expected yields from a semiempirical analytical model. A general correlation between the experimental/theoretical ratio and the distance of the nuclide from Zp, the most probable charge in a fission product mass chain, has been constructed. This correlation can serve as a basis for assigning uncertainties to theoretical yield estimates.
