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The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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NRC finalizes new rule on reactor license renewals
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is issuing a final rule and corresponding update to the generic environmental impact statement (GEIS) the agency uses when considering applications to renew the operating licenses of nuclear power reactors. All four current NRC commissioners voted to approve the rule on May 16.
Yue Zhang, Hairui Guo, Yinlu Han, Qingbiao Shen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 161 | Number 3 | March 2009 | Pages 331-345
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE161-331
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All cross sections of neutron-induced reactions, angular distributions, double-differential cross sections, and energy spectra for neutron, proton, deuteron, triton, helium, and alpha-particle emissions are consistently calculated and analyzed for 59Co with incident neutron energies below 20 MeV by using nuclear theoretical models, which are the optical model, preequilibrium and equilibrium reaction theories, and the distorted wave Born approximation theory. Theoretical calculated results are compared with existing experimental data and with evaluated data from ENDF/B-VII and JENDL-3.3.