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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
J. Hardy, Jr., G. G. Smith, J. A. Mitchell, D. Klein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 2 | February 1962 | Pages 301-308
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26071
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The Dancoff correction factor (1 − C) for U238 resonance neutron capture was measured for cylindrical, 0.98 cm diameter fuel rods at lattice pitches of 1.81 cm and 1.44 cm. The rods were 1.3% U235, arranged in a hexagonal, H2O-moderated lattice. Measurements were done for three fuel materials: uranium metal, UO2 (density 10.5 gm/cm3), and UO2 (density 7.5 gm/cm3) according to the following method. The ratio of U238 epicadmium neutron capture per atom at rod surface to that at rod center, S/V, was measured, for each fuel composition, at both lattice pitches and in an isolated rod (i.e., no Dancoff interaction). The quantity R ≡ [(S − V)/V]lattice/[(S − V)/V]isolated rod was, within experimental error, the same for all three fuel materials at each lattice pitch. Furthermore, within experimental error, R was found to be equal to (1 − C), calculated at each lattice pitch from Dancoff's expression. This agreement was expected from an analysis of the experiment in terms of a current model of resonance capture which indicated that R equals (1 − C) multiplied by two factors: one accounting for lattice mutual shielding of capture at rod center, the other accounting for the effect on S/V of the resonance flux lethargy tilt (due to loss of neutrons by resonance capture). Approximate calculations of these two effects showed that each perturbs R by about 10% in the worst case. The effects oppose each other so that very closely R = 1 − C.