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Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
Supply chain contract signed for Aurora
Oklo, the California-based developer of the Aurora Powerhouse sodium-cooled fast-neutron reactor, has signed a contract with Siemens Energy that is meant to de-risk supply chain and production timeline challenges for Oklo. Under the terms, Siemens will design and deliver the power conversion system for the Powerhouse, which is to be deployed at Idaho National Laboratory.
Jorge Molina Avila, Maria Do Carmo Lopes
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 4 | August 1987 | Pages 310-317
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16394
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A previously developed formalism is applied to calculate the sensitivity of cobalt prompt response self-powered neutron detectors. Differential and average sensitivities in thermal and epithermal energy regions are calculated, and their dependence on the geometrical factors is studied. A simple analytical expression is proposed for the first-collision absorption probability, which is a good approximation to the exact function. This expression is used to obtain the epithermal selfshielding factor as a function of the radius of the emitter and the parameters of the interaction. The thermal sensitivity, as the main contributor to the current, is studied as a function of the emitter radius. Finally, a criterion to evaluate the accuracy of the parameters of the model is established in the form of some interval rule. This interval rule should encourage the performance of better measurements and calculations.