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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.
Saadia Amiel, Jacob Gilat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 1 | January 1964 | Pages 105-109
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18145
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The reaction O17(n, p) and the previously unreported reaction O18(n, d)were found to be responsible for the production of the 4.14-second delayed-neutron precursor, nitrogen-17, in water irradiated in a reactor. The effective cross sections of these reactions with fission-spectrum neutrons were measured by counting the delayed neutron emission of irradiated water samples enriched with oxygen-17 and -18. The values obtained are 7.4 ± 0.6 and 0.086 ± 0.008 µb respectively.
