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Reducing radiological exposure: Dominion Engineering’s president weighs in
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a Supplier Showcase webinar, “Reducing Cumulative Radiological Exposure with Advanced Source Term Removal Technologies,” featuring Chuck Marks, president of Dominion Engineering, a consulting, equipment, and services company focused on improving nuclear power plant performance, efficiency, and reliability.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 1 | October 1978 | Pages 55-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27270
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Measured neutron emission spectra from 14-MeV neutron-induced reactions in a wide range of nuclei are analyzed by precompound nuclear model calculations. The nuclear model code parameters are adjusted using a least-squares fitting procedure to optimize the agreement between calculation and experiment, but the parameters are constrained to physically reasonable values. A single set of input nuclear constants produces calculated spectra that agree to within 30% of experimental values in over 70% of the cases.