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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
M. Blaauw
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 3 | November 1996 | Pages 431-435
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A17921
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The derivation and proper use of a formula originally published in 1959 for thermal neutron self-shielding computations in scattering bodies are presented. It is shown that the f0 entity in this formula must be computed using the total macroscopic cross section ∑t instead of the macroscopic absorption cross section ∑a, as was stated in previous publications. The validity of the formula is verified by Monte Carlo computations.
