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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
K. S. Rockey, W. Skolnik
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1960 | Pages 62-65
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE8-1-62
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The diffusion length of thermal neutrons has been measured in water over the range 25.9 to 295.3°C in the pressure vessel of the KAPL High Temperature Critical Assembly. The diffusion length was determined by fitting an exponential to the data found by activating manganese foils with neutrons from a small Sb-Be source. The temperature variation of the diffusion length could be fairly well represented by either of two simple approximations—either that the transport cross section of water has a 1/υ behavior, or that the transport cross section is determined from the Radkowsky prescription.
