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Nuclear energy for maritime shipping and coastal applications
The Boston-based Deon Policy Institute has published a white paper that examines the applications of nuclear energy in the maritime sector—specifically, floating nuclear power plants and nuclear propulsion for commercial vessels. Topics covered include available technologies, preliminary cost estimates, and a status update on the regulatory framework.
Unique opportunity: The paper points out that nuclear energy has the potential to benefit the shipping industry with high energy efficiency, lower operating costs, and zero carbon emissions. The report has a special focus on Greece, a nation that controls about 20 percent of the global commercial fleet and thus has an opportunity to take a leading role in the transition to nuclear-powered shipping.
J. A. DeJuren and R. K. Paschall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 3 | November 1964 | Pages 314-317
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19575
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The transmission of thermal neutrons through cadmium covers as a function of cadmium thickness was measured in a graphite stack at various heights above the thermal column of the AE-6 water-boiler reactor. Both dysprosium-alloy and indium-alloy foils were used as detectors and were beta-counted. Because the thermal flux incident on a cadmium cover is depressed relative to the flux incident on a bare foil, a foil with a thick cadmium cover on one side only was used for the zero-thickness measurement and its activity was doubled. The resultant thermal activities for a thin detector were consistent with the exponential integral 0.930 Ε2(dΣα) a cadmium thickness greater than 0.025 cm, where and a value of 2450 barns was used for the absorption cross section of cadmium.
