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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.
T. E. Young, F. B. Simpson, J. R. Berreth, M. S. Coops
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The neutron total cross section of 238Pu has been measured from 0.008 to 6500 eV. These data give single-level Breit-Wigner parameters for resonances below 200 eV. The observed total cross section at 2200 m/sec is 588 b. A value of 532 b has been calculated for the effective (equivalent l/v) thermal absorption cross section. Parameters of individual resonances below 200 eV and average parameters at higher energies give a resonance absorption integral of 164 ± 15 b, and a value of (1.10 ± 0.20) × 10-4 for the s-wave neutron strength function (/D).
