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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
E. J. Dowdy, E. J. Lozito, E. A. Plassmann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 2 | February 1975 | Pages 381-389
Technical Paper | Material Dosimetry | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24375
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The BIG-TEN critical assembly at the Los Alamos Scientific Critical Experiments Facility was designed to provide a neutron spectrum somewhat like that expected in the liquid-metal fast breeder reactor. The relatively uncomplicated configuration of this assembly makes it useful for comparison of measured and calculated neutronic characteristics, and the high precision reproducibility of reactivity makes it valuable for intercomparisons of reaction rates. The central neutron spectrum was measured using protonrecoil proportional-counting techniques with pulse shape discrimination capability for the energy range from 27 to 1200 keV.