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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Yinlu Han, Qingbiao Shen, Jingshang Zhang, Zhengjun Zhang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 143 | Number 2 | February 2003 | Pages 202-210
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2330
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Accurate nuclear data are needed for the development of clean nuclear power systems that employ accelerator-driven technologies. To meet this need for thorium - based on the experimental data of total, nonelastic-scattering, fission, and other reaction cross sections and elastic-scattering angular distributions of 232Th - all cross sections of the neutron-induced reaction, angular distributions, energy spectra, gamma-ray production cross sections, gamma-ray production energy spectra, and number of neutrons per fission are calculated and analyzed for n + 232Th at incident neutron energies from 0.05 to 20 MeV. The analysis includes the double-differential cross section for neutron, proton, deuteron, triton, and alpha emission. Theoretical calculations are compared with existing experimental data and other evaluated data from ENDF/B6 and JENDL-3.