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Strong performances across the board
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Another year, another stellar performance by America’s nuclear plants. We’ve come to expect high capacity factors, and it’s a credit to the men and women of the profession. They’ve made routine something that was unimaginable not so long ago.
The decadal challenge for the nuclear enterprise now is to maintain this high level of operational excellence for the current fleet, while at the same time ushering in a new generation of technologies at scale. It will be a big job—but one that seems more and more likely with each passing day.
S. M. Grimes, C. E. Brient, F. B. Bateman, M. B. Chadwick, R. C. Haight, T. M. Lee‚ S. M. Sterbenz, P. G. Young F. C. Goeckner, O. A. Wasson, H. Vonach
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 2 | October 1996 | Pages 271-279
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28577
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Alpha-particle production cross sections and spectra produced by neutron bombardment of 59Co are measured at 30, 60, 90, and 135 deg over the neutron energy range from 5 to 50 MeV. A source of neutrons continuous in energy is provided by the Los Alamos Weapons Nuclear Research Facility spallation neutron source facility. Comparison of the measurements with results of calculations including sequential reaction Hauser-Feshbach calculations and pre-equilibrium processes indicates that the majority of the alpha particles result from compound nuclear reactions. The degree of agreement of calculation with experimental data for the cross section as a function of neutron energy and on the alpha-particle emission spectra depends on the selection of nuclear level densities and optical model parameters.