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ANS announces 2025 Presidential Citations
One of the privileges of being president of the American Nuclear Society is awarding Presidential Citations to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding effort in some manner for the benefit of ANS or the nuclear community at large. Citations are conferred twice each year, at the Annual and Winter Meetings.
ANS President Lisa Marshall has named this season’s recipients, who will receive recognition at the upcoming Annual Conference in Chicago during the Special Session on Tuesday, June 17.
K. J. Yost, J. E. White, C. Y. Fu, W. E. Ford, III
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 209-220
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22398
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Gamma-ray yields as a function of neutron energy for tantalum and tungsten have been generated with a combined experimental and theoretical approach. The results are presented in a format that would facilitate use in coupled neutron gamma-ray transport calculations. In the case of tungsten, pronounced variations in the capture yield spectra were noticed above 3.0 MeV. On the other hand, only slight variations in the yield spectra were evident for tantalum. The results have been compared with integral gamma-ray yield measurements and the agreement is favorable.
