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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Michal Kostal, Zdeněk Matěj, Martin Schulc, Evžen Losa, Jan Šimon, Evžen Novák, František Cvachovec, Vaclav Přenosil, Filip Mravec, Tomáš Czakoj, Vojtěch Rypar, Andrej Trkov, Roberto Capote
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 2 | February 2024 | Pages 399-410
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2206770
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Integral experiments covering neutron leakage from geometrically simple assemblies with a 252Cf source inside are very valuable tools usable in the validation of transport cross-section data since geometric uncertainties play a much smaller role in simple geometric assemblies than in complex assemblies as for example reactor pressure vessel geometry. Since 252Cf spontaneous fission is a standard neutron source, the uncertainties connected with the source neutron spectrum can be even neglected. The paper refers to validation efforts of neutron leakage from an ~50 × 50 × 50-cm stainless steel block in the Research Center Rez. Both the neutron leakage flux at a distance of 1 m from the center of the cubical assembly using stilbene spectrometry and activation rates at different positions of the assembly were evaluated. In addition to experiments, main sources of uncertainty were identified and evaluated. The results of the stilbene measurements are consistent with the activation measurement results.