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General Matter to build Kentucky enrichment plant under DOE lease
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced it has signed a lease with General Matter for the reuse of a 100-acre parcel of federal land at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky for a new private-sector domestic uranium enrichment facility.
J. Halperin, C. E. Bemis, Jr., J. W. T. Dabbs, B. H. Ketelle, R. W. Stoughton, R. W. Hoff, R. J. Dougan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 75 | Number 1 | July 1980 | Pages 56-59
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A20317
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The prompt neutron multiplicity distribution for the spontaneous fission of 242Cm has been measured. The measurement has been carried out with a neutron multiplicity counter using hydrogen moderation and neutron detection with 3He proportional gas counters. The fission chamber is of a novel design enabling the measurement of fission fragments in the presence of high alpha intensities. We report a value of (242Cm) = 2.532 ± 0.013, which is in turn based on an assumed value for (252Cf) = 3.760.
