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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
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Chris Wright, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, spent hours today fielding questions from members of the U.S. Senate’s committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
During the hearing, Wright—who’s spent most of his career in fossil fuels—made comments in support of nuclear energy and efforts to expand domestic generation in the near future. Asked what actions he would take as energy secretary to improve the development and deployment of SMRs, Wright said: “It’s a big challenge, and I’m new to government, so I can’t list off the five levers I can pull. But (I’ve been in discussions) about how to make it easier to research, to invest, to build things. The DOE has land at some of its facilities that can be helpful in this regard.”
Shigeyasu Sakamoto, Eiping Quang, Glenn F. Knoll
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 2 | October 1991 | Pages 215-220
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A28519
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Neutron capture cross sections for the 197Au(n, γ)198Au reaction have been absolutely determined at neutron energies of 23 and 967 keV. These are the median energies of the two photoneutron sources, Sb-Be and Na-Be, applied in this study. Reaction rates were determined by gamma counting of the 198Au activity using a pair of cylindrical NaI(Tl) detectors. The detection efficiency of the detectors was determined using 4π beta-gamma coincidence counting techniques. The neutron emission rates of the photoneutron sources were determined by indirect comparison with the U.S. National Bureau of Standards NBS-I neutron standard source using the University of Michigan manganese bath. The values obtained for the 197Au(n,γ)198Au cross section are 617.8 ± 11.1 mb and 99.7 ± 2.8 mb at 23 and 967 keV, respectively.
