ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Jun 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
July 2026
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
May 2026
Latest News
Breaking ground on a new approach to construction
The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
A. Sanchez, A. dos Santos
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 131 | Number 3 | March 1999 | Pages 387-400
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2041
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new methodology that is applicable to individual nuclides is developed for the determination of the intermediate resonance (IR) parameters in the multigroup formalism. The method keeps the main steps commonly used for the determination of these parameters and is compatible with the methods utilized for the generation of the multigroup libraries for thermal and epithermal reactors. The proposed method does not impose any restriction on the formalism used to describe the resonances. Use is made of the computational approach used by the GROUPR module of the NJOY system (flux calculator option). A numerical scheme is presented to determine the IR parameters by means of an iterative approach. Numerical results for the IR parameters in a heterogeneous system composed of UO2 (238U only) and hydrogen as an external moderator are reported as a function of the dilution 0, heterogeneity factor , and temperature T for several epithermal groups of the MUFT structure. The results are consistent, as shown by the consistency checks performed.