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Fixing the barriers: How new policies can make U.S. nuclear exports competitive again
The United States has a strong marketplace of ideas on future civil nuclear technology. President Trump wants to see 10 large reactors under construction by 2030 and has discussed making $80 billion available for that objective. Evolutionary small modular reactors based on light water reactor technology are on the market now, and the Tennessee Valley Authority expects a construction permit for a project at its Clinch River Site later this year.
D. K. Trubey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 2 | June 1961 | Pages 102-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25946
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The results of a calculation using the single-scattering approximation, with no exponential attenuation or buildup, has been compared to results of a Monte Carlo calculation of the dose rate and number flux in air from a monoenergetic gamma-ray source. The comparison shows that the simple approximation is generally adequate for unshielded detectors.
