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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
M. B. Saddi, Bhajan Singh, B. S. Sandhu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 175 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 168-174
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the 16th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division / Radiation Measurements and General Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A12286
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The singly differential collision cross sections of the double-photon Compton process have been measured for 662-keV incident gamma photons by using a single-gamma-ray detector. This technique avoids the use of the complicated slow-fast coincidence setup used until now for observing this higher-order process. The measured values of the singly differential collision cross section are of the same magnitude but deviate from the corresponding values calculated from the theory and are nearly (fine-structure constant, [congruent with] 1/137) times the Klein-Nishina cross-section value for different scattering angles.