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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.
M. Goldsmith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 4 | December 1973 | Pages 461-465
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23313
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A deformed optical potential, obtained by matching partial cross sections and the s-wave strength function, is used to calculate p-wave strength functions for 238U and 232Th. We find for 232Th: S1,1/2 = 1.9 × 10-4; S1,3/2= 1.8 × 10-4. For 238U, we find: S1,1/2 = 2.0 × 10-4; S1,3/2 = 1.9 × 10-4. These results are consistent with thermal potential scattering cross sections of ∼10.5 b for both nuclides.
