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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
W. E. Kinney, F. G. Perey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 3 | June 1970 | Pages 396-406
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20191
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Measurements of neutron elastic and inelastic scattering from 56Fe have been analyzed theoretically. The shape-elastic-scattering cross sections, calculated with an optical-model potential using energy-independent parameters, added to the compound-elastic contribution obtained from a Hauser-Feshbach calculation, including width fluctuation corrections, agree reasonably well with the data from 4 to 7.6 MeV. Inelastic-scattering cross sections from the Hauser-Feshbach calculation agree well with the data from 1 to 7.6 MeV. From the known branching ratios for the decay of the levels of 56Fe, calculated gamma-ray-production cross sections are in reasonable agreement with the data. It is suggested that such calculations form the basis for consistent sets of (n,n′) and (n,n′γ) cross sections for shielding calculations.
