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Anfield Energy to start construction of Utah uranium mine
British Columbia-based Anfield Energy has scheduled a groundbreaking on November 6 at its uranium and vanadium Velvet-Wood mine, located in southeastern Utah’s Lisbon Valley. According to Corey Dias, the company’s CEO, it will be "more than a groundbreaking—it’s a bold declaration of Anfield’s readiness to help fuel the American nuclear renaissance.”
Wendell C. Demarcus
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 5 | May 1959 | Pages 336-337
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25606
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An integral equation is derived for the function giving the average number of collisions required to thermalize neutrons by elastic collisions with nuclei of relative mass M. An asymptotic solution is obtained which corrects the customary result by between and 1 collision (depending on M). Numerical results for small lethargy increments are presented for the cases M = 2 and M = 235.
