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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
P. Talou, T. Kawano, D. G. Madland, A. C. Kahler, D. K. Parsons, M. C. White, R. C. Little, M. B. Chadwick
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 166 | Number 3 | November 2010 | Pages 254-266
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE09-10
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Uncertainties associated with the prompt fission neutron spectrum (PFNS) of n(0.5 MeV) + 239Pu evaluated for the ENDF/B-VII.0 library are estimated using known experimental information and model parameter uncertainties in the framework of the Madland-Nix model. The model parameters used for the ENDF/B-VII.0 evaluation are also used in the present work. A covariance matrix is obtained, and its eigenvalues are estimated. Sampled spectra are then used in PARTISN transport simulations to infer the impact of PFNS uncertainties on the calculation of the multiplication factor keff in the Jezebel critical assembly. The present evaluated PFNS uncertainties lead to ˜0.24% uncertainty in the Jezebel keff. Finally, multigroup covariance matrices are produced in 33- and 590-group structures.