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ANS sends waste policy recommendations to DOE
The American Nuclear Society has sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright with a set of recommendations for the Department of Energy to take to establish an effective national program to manage the storage, reprocessing, and final disposal of U.S. commercial used nuclear fuel.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 67 | Number 2 | August 1978 | Pages 260-263
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A15443
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The 63Cu(n,α)60Co cross section has been measured by activation relative to the well-known 27Al(n,α)24Na cross section. The 60Co and 24Na activities induced were measured with a 5- × 5-in. NaI(Tl) well-type scintillation detector. The average neutron energy was 14.80 ± 0.02 MeV, with an energy spread of ∼0.3 MeV. As the result, a value of 40.7 mb was obtained for the cross section with an accuracy of approximately ±2.5% (effective standard deviation) on a 1σ confidence level.