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After nearly three weeks of a government shutdown, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed 1,400 employees and has retained 400 as essential employees who will continue working without pay.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 17 | Number 2 | February 1973 | Pages 189-192
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31246
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A high resolution thermal-neutron radiography facility has been designed and constructed at the 5-MW University of Missouri Research Reactor Facility. Neutrons leaving the core pass through 3 in. of beryllium, 13 in. of graphite, 4 in. of lead, and 8 in. of bismuth before entering the variable aperture of the conical collimator. This filtering produces a beam with a neutron-to-gamma-ray ratio >107 n/(cm1 mR). The variable aperture permits beam resolutions from 28:1 to 400:1 with neutron fluxes in the 13- × 13-in. exposure chamber from 8 × 107 to 4.7 × 105 n/(cm2 sec), respectively.