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Ribbon-cutting scheduled for Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative
Energy Secretary Chris Wright will attend the opening of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative in Aiken, S.C., on August 7. Wright will deliver remarks and join Savannah River National Laboratory leadership and partners for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
K. P. Gopinathan Nair, Channe Gowda, J. Shylaja Kumari, S. J. Anasuya, T. K. Umesh, Ramakrishna Gowda
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 115 | Number 4 | December 1993 | Pages 300-303
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Total attenuation cross sections of several sugars have been measured for 133Ba photons in a narrow-beam geometry setup, by using a hyperpure germanium detector. The values are compared with the values calculated with the aid of a mixture rule based on Hubbell’s data for the individual elements. Based on the measured values for different sugars, a set of mean mass attenuation coefficients for sugars is given for the energy region of interest.
