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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 4 | April 1990 | Pages 301-313
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23731
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A new neutron multiplicity counter has been developed that can provide International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors a means of verifying plutonium samples by a full neutron multiplicity analysis where conventional neutron coincidence counters yield outliers. This prototype detector comprises an array of 3He and liquid scintillator neutron detectors and is one of a new generation of multiplicity counters under development for nuclear safeguards. A moments analysis solution to the plutonium mass, (α,n) rate, and multiplication is calculated using the measured neutron multiplicity distributions, and an expression for the uncertainty in the multiplication-corrected mass has been derived.