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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
M. Azam, R. S. Gowda, S. Ganesan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 152 | Number 3 | March 2006 | Pages 320-324
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-A2586
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The relative differential cross section for testing the validity of the Ramsauer model was previously introduced by Azam and Gowda. This quantity for intermediate energy neutron scattering processes is independent of the details of nuclear interaction and depends only on nuclear radius as a parameter. In this paper we use this quantity to predict the neutron total and differential shape-elastic cross sections. We show that, given the radius parameter, by making a measurement of the differential cross section at one angle, the total shape-elastic cross section (and hence the reaction cross section if the total cross section is known) can be determined to a good degree of accuracy. The forward-angle differential shape-elastic cross section is also well predicted. The method is of very general applicability and will be most useful in those situations where model-based fits to these quantities either do not exist or are unreliable for extrapolation/interpolation.