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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Jeffery Lewins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 122-126
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29080
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The operational and conceptual significance of the reactor kinetics parameters is considered, with especial reference to the generation time, the reciprocal production probability. The kinetics equations are given in a form parametric in the generation time, a form which is usually more accurate and always simpler to solve than the corresponding form in the lifetime, the reciprocal destruction probability. Typical solutions are given for several simple and more sophisticated problems employing a further useful set of nondimensional parameters.
