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NEUP honors young ANS members with R&D awards
Each year, the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) recognizes graduate and undergraduate students for their innovative nuclear energy research. The winners of the Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research and Development Student Competition (INSC) receive honoraria along with travel and conference opportunities, including the chance to present their publications at the annual American Nuclear Society Winter Conference & Expo.
J. O. Elliot, F. C. Young
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1959 | Pages 55-56
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A27330
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Scintillation detector studies were performed on the disintegration rate of five nuclides produced at the NRL research reactor. The nuclides together with their measured half lives are as follows:
