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Perpetual Atomics, QSA Global produce Am fuel for nuclear space power
U.K.-based Perpetual Atomics and U.S.-based QSA Global claim to have achieved a major step forward in processing americium dioxide to fuel radioisotope power systems used in space missions. Using an industrially scalable process, the companies said they have turned americium into stable, large-scale ceramic pellets that can be directly integrated into sealed sources for radioisotope power systems, including radioisotope heater units (RHUs) and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs).
Gilbert Epstein, James Biffer, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 3 | July 1976 | Pages 288-301
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26885
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Continuous neutron slowing down theory, as generalized to incorporate inelastic scattering, has been combined with integral transport theory by use of the separable kernel analogy. The result is a matrix form of continuous slowing down theory where the matrices involved are direct generalizations of the scalar quantities encountered in continuous slowing down theory. The approach has been applied to the calculation of space-dependent spectra in uranium and iron single-region problems and in two-region problems involving uranium and iron. In general, very good agreement with more precise calculations is obtained.