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House, Senate bills aim to improve nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal
Two bills were introduced in the last several weeks aiming to address nuclear power at the end of life—decommissioning plants and recycling used fuel.
K. B. Winterbon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 2 | February 1974 | Pages 261-262
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23350
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Given a uranium atom moving in U, UC, or UO2, a carbon atom moving in UC, or an oxygen atom moving in UO2, with energy <10 MeV, the fraction of that energy which is dissipated in atomic motion is calculated. Results are presented in graphical form.
