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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
Ronald C. Brockhoff, J. Kenneth Shultis, Richard E. Faw
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 126 | Number 1 | May 1997 | Pages 119-126
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24464
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Empirical parameters for two differential gamma-ray albedo formulas, originally proposed by Chilton and Huddleston, are presented for water, concrete, iron, and lead for 12 photon energies ranging from 0.1 to 10 MeV and for reflected doses based on the ambient dose equivalent, the effective dose equivalent, and the exposure. The parameters were obtained by fitting the albedo formulas to MCNP-calculated albedo values over the complete ranges of incident and reflected directions.
