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Creekstone Energy taps EnergySolutions to study nuclear-powered data center
Utah-based Creekstone Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EnergySolutions to study the feasibility of building at least 2 gigawatts of advanced nuclear capacity to power a 25-acre data center Creekstone is planning in Delta, Utah.
Moses A. Greenfield, Roscoe L. Koontz, Alan A. Jarrett
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 4 | October 1958 | Pages 563-569
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The method for computing absolute thermal neutron flux from measurements made with activated indium foils is described. By combining data from the counting rate of indium foils in 2π proportional counters with appropriate corrections for foil weights and neutron effects, the thermal flux is expressed in terms of σO, the thermal absorption cross section of In115. This procedure may be used by laboratories which do not have access to a standard graphite pile or to a standard neutron source. This method has an estimated error of less than 5% which is a function of the accuracy with which it is possible to determine the various correction factors for beta counting. A possible fixed error in the value of σO can easily be corrected for and incorporated into the methods used.