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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).
Yasunori Yamamura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 377-387
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26924
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To estimate analytically the effects of discrete model and evaporation model inelastic scattering on the fast neutron spectrum, the original Greuling-Goertzel (GG) approximation was developed with the help of the generalized function theory. In place of the collision density function ψ(u), the two-term Taylor's expansion of a test function of a functional ψ was proposed to obtain analytic expressions of lethargy moments of inelastic scattering kernels. By using these moments, the author derived the standard GG approximation including all inelastic events. By introducing an approximate separable kernel of the evaporation model inelastic scattering, another conventional treatment of inelastic scatterings was proposed, i.e., the external source approximation of inelastic scattering. In this approximate method, elastic scattering was treated by the ordinary GG approximation. The present standard GG theory was useful for the preliminary description of fast neutron spectrum in a mixture in which a large amount of fuel elements is not included, while the external source approximation was shown to estimate reasonably the effects of inelastic scattering on fast neutron spectrum in any medium.