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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
Yinlu Han, Zhengjun Zhang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 141 | Number 2 | June 2002 | Pages 154-164
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2274
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Based on the experimental data of the total, nonelastic-scattering, and elastic-scattering cross sections and the elastic-scattering angular distribution of 209Bi, a set of optimal neutron optical potential parameters is obtained, and all cross sections of the neutron-induced reaction, angular distribution, energy spectra, gamma-ray production cross sections, and gamma-ray production energy spectra, especially the double-differential cross section for neutron, proton, deuteron, triton, and alpha-particle emission, are calculated and analyzed for n + 209Bi at incident neutron energies <20 MeV. Theoretical calculated data are compared with existing experimental data and other evaluated data from ENDF/B6 and JENDL-3.
