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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.
E. D. Arthur, P. G. Young, D. G. Madland, R. E. MacFarlane
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 1 | September 1984 | Pages 56-70
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17139
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A major revision of the ENDF/B-V evaluation of neutron-induced nuclear data for 239Pu has been completed for neutron energies between 8 keV and 20 MeV. The most important changes to the evaluation include incorporation of a comprehensive new theoretical analysis based on recent experimental data to replace part of the total cross-section file and all of the elastic and inelastic cross sections and secondary distributions, reevaluation of the prompt and total average neutron multiplicities from fission for incident energies between 0.4 and 11.5 MeV to correct discrepancies of almost 3% with new experimental data, and the replacement of all secondary neutron energy spectra from fission with improved shapes based on approximations to a new theoretical method. The results have been validated by calculating measured quantities for five fast critical assemblies. The evaluation is being distributed as Revision 2 of ENDF/B-V by the National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory.