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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
S. Guru Prasad, K. Parthasaradhi, W. D. Bloomer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 126 | Number 2 | June 1997 | Pages 224-228
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24475
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Effective atomic numbers are derived for the low-Z compounds polyethylene, polycarbonate, Teflon, Mylar, polystyrene, and polyvinyl chloride for total photon interaction in the 10- to 20000-keV energy region. The number generally decreases and then increases with increasing energy. This variation is based on the effective atomic numbers for photoelectric, incoherent scattering, and pair production partial photon interaction processes.
