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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
R. T. Couto, K. O. Ott, F. M. Clikeman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 4 | April 1988 | Pages 317-325
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23532
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An improved correction for distortions of the electric field in recoil-proton detectors, applied in neutron energy spectrum measurements, was developed. It utilizes a simple analytical expression for the representation of the response function for the entire interval of the electric charge, thus avoiding the previous separate treatment of the upper 20 to 30% of the charge range. The simplicity of the functional expression for the response function allowed the integral equation of the unfolding problem to be solved analytically. This refined unfolding technique apparently provides a better resolution, as it shows the spectrum deformation due to the large scattering resonances to be more pronounced. This highly accurate analytical unfolding procedure is likely to be applicable in other areas as well.