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NRC cuts fees by 50 percent for advanced reactor applicants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it has amended regulations for the licensing, inspection, special projects, and annual fees it will charge applicants and licensees for fiscal year 2025.
H. Naik, R. J. Singh, S. P. Dange, W. Jang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 6 | June 2022 | Pages 694-714
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.2014753
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The cumulative yields of fission products within the mass range of 83 to 119 and 123 to 158 have been measured in the epi-cadmium neutron-induced fission of 243Am by using an off-line gamma-ray spectrometric technique. Mass chain yields were obtained from the cumulative yields of the fission products by applying the charge distribution correction. From the mass yield data, the full-width at tenth-maximum of the light and heavy mass wing, the peak-to-valley (P/V) ratio, the average light mass <AL> and heavy mass <AH>, and the average number of neutrons <ν> were obtained. The mass yield data in the 243Am(n,f) reaction were compared with similar data in the 243Am(nth,f) and 243Am(n16.5 MeV,f) reactions to examine the role of excitation energy on the nuclear structure effect and P/V ratio.