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R. M. Westfall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 237-239
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-4
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As part of a standards effort of the American Nuclear Society to establish subcritical mass limits for the transuranium actinides, critical masses were calculated for seven actinide elements in bare, water-reflected, and steel-reflected metal systems. For the nuclides 242Pu and 241Am, values obtained with ENDF/B-V cross-section data were in much better agreement with values inferred from experimental measurement than were initial values calculated with ENDF/B-IV data. A brief description of the analytical methods employed is followed by a presentation of the results.