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NWTRB to hold public meeting on SNF disposal and corrosion
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an independent federal agency that evaluates the Department of Energy’s efforts to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, will hold a two-day public meeting May 21–22 to review information on the DOE’s research and development activities related to the disposal of SNF and HLW in crystalline host rocks and on the corrosion of commercial SNF after disposal.
Tsutomu Iijima, Shoji Nomoto
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 1 | May 1965 | Pages 102-110
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19767
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A new method for determining the angular and energy distributions of an anisotropic fast-neutron flux by using nuclear emulsions based on the proton-recoil method is proposed. The relation between the distributions of neutron flux and proton-recoil tracks is analyzed, and formulas for obtaining the angular distribution and energy spectrum of the neutron flux from the measurement of proton-recoil tracks are derived. Measurements were made to investigate the accuracy of this method with the emulsion plate, which was irradiated inside a natural uranium system. The experimental results show that the measurement of the anisotropic component, which hitherto could not be measured, is possible.
