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After two years of testing, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have begun officially implementing the Rhisotope Project, an innovative effort to combat rhino poaching and trafficking by leveraging nuclear technology.
Ernest G. Silver
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 3 | December 1968 | Pages 275-284
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A21092
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The pulsed-neutron method has been used with ice cylinders in the buckling range from 0.039 to 0.739 cm−2 over temperatures between −5 and −85°C. The purpose was to determine whether there would be early establishment of an asymptotic neutron spectrum and, since this proved to be so, to measure the neutron diffusion parameters. The neutron decay data were analyzed by using a nonlinear least-squares fitting method with two exponential modes. The resulting diffusion parameters are compared with those found by other workers for H2O at various temperatures, and the effect of the solid-liquid phase transition on the diffusion coefficient and diffusion cooling coefficient is discussed.