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Remembering ANS member Gil Brown
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The nuclear community is mourning the loss of Gilbert Brown, who passed away on July 11 at the age of 77 following a battle with cancer.
Brown, an American Nuclear Society Fellow and an ANS member for nearly 50 years, joined the faculty at Lowell Technological Institute—now the University of Massachusetts–Lowell—in 1973 and remained there for the rest of his career. He eventually became director of the UMass Lowell nuclear engineering program. After his retirement, he remained an emeritus professor at the university.
Sukesh Aghara, chair of the Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization, noted in an email to NEDHO members and others that “Gil was a relentless advocate for nuclear energy and a deeply respected member of our professional community. He was also a kind and generous friend—and one of the reasons I ended up at UMass Lowell. He served the university with great dedication. . . . Within NEDHO, Gil was a steady presence and served for many years as our treasurer. His contributions to nuclear engineering education and to this community will be dearly missed.”
S. Plattard, J. Blons, D. Paya
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 4 | December 1976 | Pages 477-495
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A14485
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The neutron-induced fission cross section of 237Np was measured between 3 eV and 2 MeV by the time-of-flight technique using a gas scintillator as a fission fragment detector. Two measurements were carried out with the Saclay 60-MeV Linac used as a pulsed-neutron source. The first measurement, with a nominal resolution of 2 ns/m, was performed in the 3-eV to 35-keV energy range, where the fission cross section exhibits the well-known intermediate structure. The samples were cooled to liquid nitrogen temperature to reduce the Doppler broadening predominant below 50 eV. Thanks to good statistics and to a very low background, a shape resonance analysis was possible up to 155 eV, the quoted uncertainties on the fission widths being essentially due to inaccurate neutron widths. The second experiment was run from 25 keV to 2 MeV, with a nominal resolution of 0.3 ns/m, and showed a structureless fission cross section. The agreement with the Physics 8 underground nuclear explosion data seems to be very poor in the resonance region, whereas it is more satisfactory for higher energies. Neptunium-238 fission barrier parameters were deduced from the collected data and agree fairly well with published results.