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Feds, state agree on deadlines for treating Hanford’s tank waste
The U.S. Department of Energy, Washington State Department of Ecology, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have reached an agreement on revised plans for managing millions of gallons of radioactive and chemical liquid waste stored in 177 underground tanks at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash.
Charles N. Kelber
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 2 | June 1965 | Pages 244-247
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20242
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It is possible to derive a correction to the mean chord length used in the Wigner Rational Approximation which 1) gives a better estimate of the escape probability 2) preserves the equivalence relationship for each resonance 3) preserves the value of the resonance integral. Various methods of achieving objectives 1 and 2 have been discussed previously. It is shown in this paper that employing criterion 3 dictates an averaging procedure similar to earlier ones but involving different weighting points. A table of weighting points is given.
