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NRC cuts fees by 50 percent for advanced reactor applicants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it has amended regulations for the licensing, inspection, special projects, and annual fees it will charge applicants and licensees for fiscal year 2025.
R. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1966 | Pages 339-346
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17354
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Single-velocity Monte Carlo calculations and measurements have been performed to determine the differential angular thermal-neutron albedos for a reinforced concrete for monodirectional beams of incident thermal neutrons. Preliminary calculations using a statistical estimation technique indicate up to 50 scatterings should be followed for each neutron to produce good estimates of the differential albedos, and up to 100 scatterings to produce good estimates of the capture gamma-ray differential dose albedos. Deviation between experiment and calculation can be reduced to an average of 5.1% for 72 points of comparison if an anisotropic scattering law for water deduced from earlier Argonne National Laboratory measurements is assumed.