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H. Liskien, R. Widera, R. Wölfle, S. M. Qaim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 266-271
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A22327
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For the first time, an experimentally determined excitation function for tritium production from beryllium has been obtained. Beryllium samples were irradiated with well-known fluxes of monoenergetic neutrons in the 12.86- to 19.57-MeV energy range and the induced tritium was quantitatively extracted and counted. The results disagree with the JEF-1 prediction but show a remarkably good agreement with JENDL-3/PR2 and a recent Los Alamos National Laboratory evaluation, both based on 14-MeV values and theoretical calculations.