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Restart progress and a new task force in Iowa
This week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order to form the Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force, the purpose of which will be to “advise her, the General Assembly, and relevant state agencies on the development and advancement of nuclear energy technologies and infrastructure in the state.”
Werner Brandt, Michael D. D’Agostino, Anthony J. Favale
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 1 | May 1971 | Pages 99-104
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30907
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An alpha-particle gas densitometer is described with an instrument response that can be tailored to given specifications by shaping the energy distribution of the radioactive alpha source. Relations are derived to establish the connection between a specified densitometer response and the corresponding source distribution. Shaped sources can be constructed by mounting contoured baffles on alpha sources. The operation of the densitometer is demonstrated experimentally for a linear and a logarithmic instrument response to air density variations.
