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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.
W. W. Strohm
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 183-189
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28048
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Plutonium-238 in contaminated trash and equipment contained in steel drums was determined by measuring, with a Nal(Tl) detector, the intensity of the 765-keV gamma ray from the decay of 238Pu. By gamma-ray stripping, the contributions of higher energy gamma rays to the 76S-keV gamma-ray photoelectric peak could be subtracted, despite the large amount of scattering material present in the drum. The transmission of the 765-keV gamma ray inside the drum was determined by measuring the transmission through the drum of the 765-keV gamma ray from external 238Pu standard sources. The uncertainty in the measurements is ±28% at the 95% confidence level when the drum contains ≥0.180 g of 238Pu.
