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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Tatiana Khromyleva, Ivan Bondarenko, Alexander Gurbich, Vladimir Ketlerov, Vitaly Khryachkov, Pavel Prusachenko
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 191 | Number 3 | September 2018 | Pages 282-290
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1463746
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A novel spectrometer was developed and used to measure the cross section for the (n, α) reaction at the Institute for Physics and Power Engineering. Direct measurements of the alpha particles yielded from isotopically enriched solid targets of 50Cr, 52Cr, and 53Cr; 54Fe and 57Fe; 60Ni; 64Zn; and 47Ti were carried out in the neutron energy range from 4.0 to 7.2 MeV. For some of the isotopes, the (n, α) reaction cross sections for neutron energies below 14 MeV were measured for the first time. The result of the comparison of new experimental data with the evaluated data from ENDF/B-VII, JENDL-4.0, JEFF-3.2, ROSFOND-2010, and BROND-3 libraries and with the experimental data of other authors is presented.