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3D-printed tool at SRS makes quicker work of tank waste sampling
A 3D-printed tool has been developed at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina that can eliminate months from the job of radioactive tank waste sampling.
R. K. Paschall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1964 | Pages 436-444
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A20985
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The age of fission neutrons to indium-resonance energy (1.46 eV) was measured in water using a plane fission source of finite diameter and essentially infinite plane detectors. This is equivalent to a measurement using axial detectors with an infinite plane source. Thus, unlike recent measurements which used axial detectors with large plane sources, these results do not require calculated corrections to extrapolate to infinite-source geometry. The remaining corrections are small and well understood. The age measured in this experiment was 26.48 ± 0.32 cm2 at a density of 1.0 g/ml.