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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.
Sheng Fan, Zhuaxia Li, Zhixiang Zhao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 142 | Number 2 | October 2002 | Pages 195-202
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2299
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The double-differential cross sections of (p,xn) reactions induced on lead targets with incident proton energies of 590, 800, and 1500 MeV has been investigated by using a quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) model. The simulation results are compared with the measured data and are in good agreement. It is clear that the QMD model is a useful approach for intermediate proton-induced reactions.