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Keeping up with Kewaunee
In October 2012, Dominion Energy announced it was closing the Kewaunee nuclear power plant, a two-loop 574-MWe pressurized water reactor located about 27 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wis., on the western shore of Lake Michigan. At the time, Dominion said the plant was running well, but that low wholesale electricity prices in the region made it uneconomical to continue operation of the single-unit merchant power plant.
F. L. Fillmore
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1956 | Pages 355-358
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A28773
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The calculation of the resonance escape probability in a lattice by means of a diffusion theory model requires a knowledge of the logarithmic energy width, ln E1/E2, of the resonance absorption region. This quantity is evaluated by fitting the results of a diffusion theory analysis which is averaged over neutron energy to an experimental value of the effective resonance integral. The result is In E1/E2 ≃ 2.6, which is much less than the value 5.6 which is ordinarily used in these calculations.
