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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
G. J. Kirouac
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1971 | Pages 427-428
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22382
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The (n, α) cross section of 59Ni for thermal neutrons has been calculated by the Hauser-Feshbach formalism to be ≈30 b, which is in substantial agreement with the value of 11b required to produce the helium concentration observed by Weitman et al. in samples of nickel irradiated by neutrons.
