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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.
Richard V. Babcock, Stanley L. Ruby
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 5 | November 1960 | Pages 410-415
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25822
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An instrument has been developed which can nondestructively determine the U235 and boron content of highly enriched, unirradiated fuel assemblies in five to fifteen minutes per element. Two nuclear measurement methods are used: counting of the natural radioactivity of U235 and neutron attenuation measurements. For MTR and ETR fuel elements, the instrument appears to be accurate to 0.3% and 4.0% in terms of the respective U235 and boron contents.
