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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE extends Centrus’s HALEU production contract by one year
Centrus Energy has announced that it has secured a contract extension from the Department of Energy to continue—for one year—its ongoing high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) production at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, at an annual rate of 900 kilograms of HALEU UF6. According to Centrus, the extension is valued at about $110 million through June 30, 2026.
V. C. Rogers, L. E. Beghian, F. M. Clikeman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 3 | September 1971 | Pages 297-307
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A19081
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Gamma-ray production cross sections were measured for (n, n′y) reactions in 56Fe, 58,60,62Ni, 93Nb, and 181Ta for neutron energies from threshold to 1.8 MeV. Neutron inelastic scattering level excitation functions were then obtained from the gamma-ray production cross sections by correcting for internal conversion and for cascading transitions. A 17-cm3 Ge(Li) spectrometer system was used to measure the gamma-ray spectra. The experimental results were compared with statistical model calculations using optical model transmission coefficients. Corrections for resonance interference and width fluctuations were also included in the computations. In general, the calculated results agreed with experiment to within the quoted error. Furthermore, the results for the deformed nucleus 181Ta indicated that a spherical optical model potential may be used successfully to obtain the level excitation functions for this nucleus.
