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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
P. M. Prajapati, H. Naik, S. Mukherjee, S. V. Suryanarayana, B. S. Shivashankar, R. Crasta, V. K. Mulik, K. C. Jagadeesan, S. V. Thakre, S. Ganesan, A. Goswami
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 176 | Number 1 | January 2014 | Pages 106-113
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-78
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The yields of various fission products in the neutron-induced fission of 232Th have been determined a using recoil catcher and off-line gamma-ray spectrometric technique with flux-averaged energies of 5.42, 7.75, and 10.09 MeV. The neutrons were generated using the 7Li(p,n) reaction at the BARC-TIFR [Bhabha Atomic Research Centre–Tata Institute of Fundamental Research] Pelletron facility, Mumbai, India. The fission product–yield data in the 10.09-MeV neutron-induced fission of 232Th are determined for the first time. The yields of the different fission products in the neutron-induced fission of 232Th with flux-averaged energies of 5.42 and 7.75 MeV from the present work have been compared with similar data of comparable neutron energy from the literature and are found to be in good agreement. The effect of nuclear structure on fission product yields as a function of neutron energy has been examined.
