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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., O. W. Hermann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 2 | May 1970 | Pages 254-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19687
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The energy distribution of neutrons from proton-nucleus nonelastic collisions for 18-MeV protons on 14N, 27Al, 56Fe, 181Ta, and 208Pb and for 15-MeV protons on 27Al and 208Pb have been calculated with the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model of nuclear reactions and with the evaporation model of nuclear reactions. Comparisons between the calculated neutron spectra and experimental data are presented, and it is shown that neither model is entirely reliable in the energy region considered but that the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model is the more reliable of the two.
