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This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
A. N. Verma, Balesh Verma, Feroz Ahmed, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 329-333
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21435
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Anisotropy in the scattering of thermal neutrons from beryllium oxide has been investigated. Elastic differential scattering cross sections have been calculated by replacing the δ function occurring in the expression by a Gaussian. The effect of changing the width of the Gaussian on the differential cross section has also been studied. Anisotropy in inelastic scattering has been calculated for coherent one-phonon and incoherent one- and two-phonon processes. Using these differential cross sections, we have calculated the energy distribution of neutrons scattered along different directions by a beryllium oxide slab and these results are compared with corresponding measured results. The agreement between the two sets of results is found to be good.
