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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.
William G. Davey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 1 | April 1968 | Pages 35-45
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18821
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The fission cross sections of 232Th, 233U, 234U, 235U, 236U, 237Np, 238U, 239Pu, 240Pu, 241Pu, and 242Pu from 1 keV to 10 MeV published up to July, 1965, were analyzed previously to select best fission cross sections for fast-reactor analysis. Since the completion of that work, new data have been produced which necessitate reevaluation of the fission cross sections particularly in the region 1 to 5 MeV. The revised data presented here are believed to be of greater consistency and, hence, accuracy than the previous selection.