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IAEA program uses radioisotopes to protect rhinos
After two years of testing, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have begun officially implementing the Rhisotope Project, an innovative effort to combat rhino poaching and trafficking by leveraging nuclear technology.
Mark Goldsmith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 2 | November 1968 | Pages 93-97
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19534
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Hauser-Feshbach calculations of the cross sections for producing selected excited states of 27Al, 56Fe, and 90Zr are compared with experiment. It is found that, in addition to the usual width fluctuation correction factor, modified optical model transmission coefficients are necessary. A simple approximate formula, due to Feshbach, for the modified transmission coefficient is found to give good overall agreement with experiment.
