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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
Yu. E. Titarenko, O. V. Shvedov, M. M. Igumnov, E. I. Karpikhin, V. F. Batyaev, V. I. Volk, A. Yu. Vakhrushin, S. V. Shepelkov, A. V. Lopatkin, S. G. Mashnik, T. A. Gabriel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 131 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 96-106
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2020
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experimental determination of the resonance neutron absorption in a heavy water solution of 2.57 g/litre 237Np is presented. Experimental samples were irradiated in the MAKET critical plant. Prior to irradiation, 237Np was radiochemically purified to remove 233Pa. The experimental samples were prepared by evaporating two aliquot samples taken from the irradiated solution. The nuclide composition of the samples was analyzed using a GC-2518 Ge detector, a 1510 module, and an S-100 plate to emulate a multichannel analyzer in an IBM personal computer. The spectrometric resolution was 1.8 keV at the 1332-keV line. The gamma spectra were processed by the ASPRO code. The neutron flux was measured by two methods using Al + 55Mn + natCu + 197Au + natLu alloy foils.
