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3D-printed tool at SRS makes quicker work of tank waste sampling
A 3D-printed tool has been developed at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina that can eliminate months from the job of radioactive tank waste sampling.
Feroz Ahmed, P. S. Grover, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 484-491
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A17591
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The propagation of neutron waves through crystalline moderator beryllium has been studied. The two simultaneous integral equations in the real and imaginary part of the flux are reduced to a single homogeneous integral equation in an extended energy interval and this is solved by an iterative procedure to determine the fundamental-mode eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for various angular frequencies of the source. We show that for frequencies exceeding a certain critical frequency ω*, no discrete mode exists. Various parameters have been deduced including D0, the diffusion constant, and C, the diffusion cooling constant. These values are compared with the values obtained from pulsed-neutron experiments.