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Ukraine releases video of Russian “kamikaze” drones flying near nuclear plant
New reports allege Russia is flying kamikaze drones and firing small arms near the site of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Europe’s largest such facility, Zaporizhzhia has been under Russian control since 2022.
C. E. Laird, D. H. Mullins, D. B. McGibney, John Swartz, R. W. Kamau, C. L. Snead, M. S. Zucker, T. E. Ward, E. M. Franz, G. A. Greene
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 130 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 320-339
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A2009
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The activation of spallation targets of Pb and W has been studied for range-thick targets at proton energies of 0.84, 1.00, and 1.42 GeV. The production of radioactive nuclei per incident proton per cubic centimetre has been determined at six depths in the target material. Comparisons have been made with high-energy transport code calculations at 0.84 and 1.00 GeV and with calculations for 800-MeV experiments using similar targets at Los Alamos National Laboratory.