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Perpetual Atomics, QSA Global produce Am fuel for nuclear space power
U.K.-based Perpetual Atomics and U.S.-based QSA Global claim to have achieved a major step forward in processing americium dioxide to fuel radioisotope power systems used in space missions. Using an industrially scalable process, the companies said they have turned americium into stable, large-scale ceramic pellets that can be directly integrated into sealed sources for radioisotope power systems, including radioisotope heater units (RHUs) and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs).
H. H. Hogue, P. L. von Behren, D. W. Glasgow, S. G. Glendinning, P. W. Lisowski, C. E. Nelson, F. O. Purser, W. Tornow, C. R. Gould, L. W. Seagondollar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 22-29
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A21281
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Differential cross sections are reported for the elastic and discrete inelastic scattering of neutrons from 6Li and 7Li. Source neutrons were provided by the 2H(d,n)3He reaction in the energy range from 7 to 14 MeV. Scattered neutrons were detected at a distance of 3.9 m at angles from 25 to 160 deg in 5-deg intervals. Total cross sections were obtained for elastic scattering from 6Li and for the sum of elastic and 0.478-MeV state inelastic scattering from 7Li. Inelastic scattering cross sections were obtained for the 2.18-MeV state in 6Li and the 4.63-MeV state in 7Li. The results are compared to ENDF/B-IV predictions and to previous measurements. Inelastic scattering to the 4.63-MeV state in 7Li accounts for less than half of the total tritium production cross section for neutron interactions with 7Li.
