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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. Sáfár, L. Lakosi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 115 | Number 4 | December 1993 | Pages 297-299
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24059
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The cross section of the 93Nb(γ, γ′)93mNb reaction is calculated in the 5- to 30-MeV gamma-energy region in the framework of a gamma-ray cascade model with open nucleon emission channels and including pre-equilibrium contribution. The resulting cross-section curve shows one pronounced peak at the neutron separation energy with an integral of 3.1 mb-MeV up to 12 MeV. Taking into consideration the pre-equilibrium gamma emission, a negligible contribution to the calculated excitation curve results at ∼18 MeV. The influence of gamma background on the response of 93Nb as a neutron fluence monitor is estimated for two practical cases.
