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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
J. Kenneth Shultis, R. E. Faw, M. S. Bassett
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 228-245
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23787
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A refinement of a simplified method, based on line-beam response functions, is presented for performing skyshine calculations for shielded and collimated gamma-ray sources. New coefficients for an empirical fit to the line-beam response function are provided and a prescription for making the response function continuous in energy and emission direction is introduced. For a shielded source, exponential attenuation and a buildup factor correction for scattered photons in the shield are used. Results of the new integral line-beam method of calculation are compared to a variety of benchmark experimental data and calculations and are found to give generally excellent agreement at a small fraction of the computational expense required by other skyshine methods.