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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
D. P. Roux
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 9 | September 1967 | Pages 575-580
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27942
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Since the quality of subcriticality measurements using neutron noise analysis in power reactors is degraded by high gamma-ray intensities produced by residual fission products, a study was made to derive an equation that can be used to predict this degrading effect quantitatively. For simplicity, this study is based on one-detector measurements but is equally appropriate to two-detector cross-correlation measurements. Equations derived to give insight into the behavior of ionization chambers operating in high gamma environments have led to the experimental development of a relatively low-cost, optimized chamber.