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Illinois legislature lifts ban on nuclear energy, funds clean energy
The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
Genichi Matsumoto, Soichi Doi, Kohei Ohkubo, Yasushi Ikeda
Nuclear Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | January 1985 | Pages 94-101
Technical Paper | Analyse | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33570
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To investigate the feasibility of applying a porta-ble neutron generator for neutron radiography (NR), an underwater NR facility was designed and constructed in the water pool in a hot laboratory. By using the system, including neutron converters and films, it was possible to obtain NR images within ∼10 min. Various characteristic tests and photography by both emulsion and tracketch methods were carried out for various objects containing irradiated nuclear fuel samples. Some combinations of the converter and x-ray films, such as gadolinium foil/Type AA, were found to be suitable for NR in this case, but the much more sensitive converter NE426 was able to reduce the exposure time considerably. The strongly irradiated nuclear fuel samples were successfully photographed by CA-8015 track-etch films with a 10BN converter.
