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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Yuan Chen, Rong Liu, Haipin Guo, Wenmian Jiang, Jian Shen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 1 | January 1993 | Pages 68-70
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30120
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Measurements of 14-MeV neutron leakage multiplication in lead are performed by the total absorption method. A polyethylene sphere is used as the neutron moderator and total absorber. Results from a 235U fission chamber and a 6Li glass detector are analyzed. The measurements are 7% lower than ANISN calculations using ENDF/B-VI.
