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WIPP’s SSCVS: A breath of fresh air
This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
D. Ingman, E. Taviv
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 85 | Number 1 | September 1983 | Pages 26-35
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17148
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The applicability and parameters of the image method for solving the thermal neutron leakage distribution on the plane surface of the semi-infinite hydrogen-containing medium in the case of the neutron field originating from a point source of fast neutrons is investigated. The research performed has shown that for the use of the image method it is necessary to introduce not only the concept of the effective extrapolated boundary but also the concept of an effective origin of the point source of fast neutrons. The values of effective extrapolated length and effective location of the point source were calculated and examined by experiment for pure water.
