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NEUP honors young ANS members with R&D awards
Each year, the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) recognizes graduate and undergraduate students for their innovative nuclear energy research. The winners of the Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research and Development Student Competition (INSC) receive honoraria along with travel and conference opportunities, including the chance to present their publications at the annual American Nuclear Society Winter Conference & Expo.
R. S. CASWELL, R. F. GABBARD, D. W. PADGETT, W. P. DOERING
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1957 | Pages 143-159
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25383
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The attenuation of 14.1-Mev neutrons in water has been studied under conditions simulating an isotropic point source of monoenergetic neutrons in an infinite water medium. The migration area of thermal neutrons (⟨r2⟩th/6) was found to be 156 ± 6 cm2. The “age” of indium resonance neutrons was measured to be 150 ± 6 cm2. Fast neutron dose measurements are in agreement with the theoretical calculations of Goldstein et al.
