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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 127 | Number 2 | October 1997 | Pages 130-138
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An accurate database is used to study optical model fits to total neutron cross sections of 56Fe in the resolved and unresolved resonance regions. Averages over resolved resonances are calculated from resonance parameters in a Reich-Moore (reduced R matrix) approximation with Lorentzian weighting. Optical potential parameters are obtained for the s, p, and d waves that reproduce the smoothed cross sections in the resolved resonance region. The p-wave optical potential is found to differ from the s-wave potential. When the appropriate higher angular momentum contributions are added, the average total cross sections can be fitted quite well, from the resolved resonance region all the way up to 20 MeV.
