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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
Manfred Drosg, Bernard Hoop
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 182 | Number 4 | April 2016 | Pages 563-570
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-57
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Estimated cross sections for neutron production from triton bombardment of gold are deduced from measurements of triton interactions with gas targets that used gold as a triton beam stop material. Differential cross sections for production of neutrons from 5.97-, 7.47-, 10.45-, 16.41- and 19.14-MeV tritons on 197Au were evaluated. Corrections for the neutron interaction in gold, in the target structure, and in the air of the flight path were obtained by means of a Monte Carlo technique. Uncorrelated scale uncertainties range from 24% to 41% whereas those of double-differential cross sections range from 0.2% to 5%. Based on these cross-section data, calculation of neutron yield at 0 deg from fully stopped tritons at 20.22 MeV agrees with an independent measurement. Least-squares fits with a gamma distribution model indicate an anisotropy in the high-energy portion of the neutron spectra. Legendre polynomial fits of differential cross sections are reported. All neutron cross-section data are made available through the Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data (EXFOR) library at international data centers.