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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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DOE-EM awards $37.5M to Vanderbilt University for nuclear cleanup support
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on January 16 that it has awarded a noncompetitive financial assistance agreement worth $37.5 million to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., to aid the department’s mission of cleaning up legacy nuclear waste.
J. C. Young, J. A. Young, G. K. Houghton, G. D. Trimble, J. R. Beyster
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 2 | June 1964 | Pages 230-241
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A28914
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A series of infinite-medium spectral measurements has been performed on ZrH1.75 at room temperature, 150 C, 170 C, 316 C, and 468 C, using the General Atomic linear accelerator as a pulsed-neutron source. Two poison concentrations were used, 3.4 and 8 barns per hydrogen atom. These measurements clearly demonstrated that neutron spectra in zirconium hydride shift rather markedly with temperature. The above spectra were calculated theoretically assuming the hydrogen atoms to be bound in an isotropic harmonic potential, and allowing for the possibility of accoustical vibrations in the zirconium hydride lattice. The agreement between theory and experiment is very good.