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NRC proposes changes to its rules on nuclear materials
In response to Executive Order 14300, “Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” the NRC is proposing sweeping changes to its rules governing the use of nuclear materials that are widely used in industry, medicine, and research. The changes would amend NRC regulations for the licensing of nuclear byproduct material, some source material, and some special nuclear material.
As published in the May 18 Federal Register, the NRC is seeking public comment on this proposed rule and draft interim guidance until July 2.
D. K. Olsen, G. de Saussure, R. B. Perez, F. C. Difilippo, R. W. Ingle, H. Weaver
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 202-222
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20611
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Neutron transmissions through 0.076-, 0.254-, 1.080-, and 3.620-cm-thick samples of isotopically enriched 238U have been measured from 0.88 to 100.0 keV using a time-of-flight technique over a path length of 150 m, the ORELA pulsed neutron source, and a 13-mm-thick lithium-glass detector. To obtain resonance parameters, these transmissions from 0.88 to 4.00 keV have been simultaneously least-squares shape-fitted with a multilevel Breit-Wigner cross-section formalism. In general, large neutron widths are obtained, resulting in an s-wave strength function of (1.208 ± 0.045) × 10−4 over the interval from 0.0 to 4.0 keV. An absolute energy scale accurate to 2 parts in 10 000 was established.