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IAEA report confirms safety of discharged Fukushima water
An International Atomic Energy Agency task force has confirmed that the discharge of treated water from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is proceeding in line with international safety standards. The task force’s findings were published in the agency’s fourth report since Tokyo Electric Power Company began discharging Fukushima’s treated and diluted water in August 2023.
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Juan U. Koppel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 4 | April 1962 | Pages 532-541
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26102
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The time dependent thermalization following a burst of fast neutrons is analyzed in the space independent case. The spectrum is decomposed in an asymptotic and a transient part, and the latter is expanded in a series of Laguerre polynomials. The argument of the polynomials is proportional to the time after the burst and the coefficients of the expansion are linear combinations of the transient time moments.
