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NS Savannah open house for National Maritime Day
On Sunday, May 17, in Baltimore, Md., there will be an open house on the NS Savannah to commemorate National Maritime Day. The Savannah acted as a passenger and cargo ship from 1962 to 1970, serving as a floating ambassador for President Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program and, more broadly, for the safe and peaceful uses of nuclear power.
A. J. Deruytter, I. G. Schröder, J. A. Moore
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 3 | March 1965 | Pages 325-328
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20036
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A more precise value of the half-life of U235, for alpha emission, has been determined from an analysis of the alpha spectrum of natural uranium. The alpha spectrum was measured using solid-state detectors and the half-life obtained by a comparison of the intensity of the resolved portion of the U235 alpha spectrum with the intensities of the U234 and U238 alpha groups. The value obtained was T1/2 = (6.92± 0.09) × 108 years.
