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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.
R. C. Haight, S. M. Grimes, R. G. Johnson, H. H. Barschal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 87 | Number 1 | May 1984 | Pages 41-47
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17444
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Energy and angular distributions of alpha particles from the bombardment of carbon foils with 14.1-MeV neutrons were measured with a magnetic spectrometer. The observations included alpha particles with energies above 1 MeV emitted at angles between 19 and 135 deg. The cross section for alpha-particle emission obtained by integrating over emission angle was 402 ± 46 mb. From these data and from evaluations of the elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, a kerma factor (energy deposition) of 1.84 ± 0.16 × 10−9 cGy·cm2 was deduced. The present cross section for the 12C(n,n′3α) reaction is much lower than previous measurements.
