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NuScale Energy Exploration Center opens at SC State
NuScale Power Corporation’s latest Energy Exploration (E2) Center has opened at South Carolina State University, in Orangeburg. E2 Centers are designed to provide visitors with hands-on experiences in simulated scenarios of operations at nuclear power plants. NuScale has established 10 such centers around the world. The company officially presented the fully installed E2 Center to SC State on May 21, after a collaborative setup and training process was completed.
F. C. Difllippo, G. L. Ragan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 104-107
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A21292
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A calculational study was made of the response of 237Np in a “threshold” fission detector to be used in a system for measuring the fissile content of spent fuel subassemblies by nondestructive assay. The results show that the contribution of the subthreshold fission component of this isotope to the total fission activity of the detector precludes the use of 237Np in this application, thus demonstrating the importance of including these usually ignored subthreshold fission cross sections in the data file.
