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NRC to add new items to categorical exclusions list
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified five categories of action to add to its list of categorical exclusions to reduce its documentation work under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures.
These revisions are included in the final rule, “Categorical exclusions from environmental review,” which was published in the Federal Register on March 30. The final rule will become effective on April 29.
L. Heilbronn, C. J. Zeitlin, Y. Iwata, T. Murakami, H. Iwase, T. Nakamura, T. Nunomiya, H. Sato, H. Yashima, R. M. Ronningen, K. Ieki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 157 | Number 2 | October 2007 | Pages 142-158
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2719
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Secondary neutron-production cross sections have been measured from interactions of 230 MeV/nucleon He, 400 MeV/nucleon N, 400 MeV/nucleon Kr, 400 MeV/nucleon Xe, 500 MeV/nucleon Fe, and 600 MeV/nucleon Ne interacting in a variety of elemental and composite targets. We report the double-differential production cross sections, angular distributions, energy spectra, and total cross sections from all systems. Neutron energies were measured using the time-of-flight technique and were measured at laboratory angles between 5 and 80 deg. The spectra exhibit behavior previously reported in other heavy-ion-induced neutron-production experiments, namely, a peak at forward angles near the energy corresponding to the beam velocity, with the remaining spectra generated by preequilibrium and equilibrium processes. The double-differential spectra are fitted with a moving-source parameterization. Observations on the dependence of the total cross sections on target and projectile mass are discussed.