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Remembering Joseph M. Hendrie
Joseph M. Hendrie
To those of us who knew Joe, even prior to his appointment as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it is an understatement to say that he was a larger-than-life member of the nuclear science and technology enterprise. He was best known to the broader community for two major accomplishments: the design and construction of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the creation of the standard review plan (SRP) for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
In addition to the products of these endeavors becoming major fundaments to their respective communities, they were uniquely Joe. The safety analysis report for the HFBR was written essentially single-handedly by him. This was true of the SRP as well, which became the key safety review document for the NRC as it performed safety reviews for the growing number of power reactor applications in the United States. His deep technical knowledge of nuclear engineering and his extraordinary management skills made this possible.
H. Naik, S. P. Dange, W. Jang, R. J. Singh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 8 | August 2022 | Pages 982-1005
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2038529
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Mass yield distribution has been carried out in the epi-cadmium neutron-induced fission of 241Am by measuring the cumulative yields of fission products within the mass ranges of 80 to 119 and 123 to 161. An off-line gamma-ray spectrometric technique was used for the measurement. From the cumulative yields of the fission products, mass chain yields were obtained by applying the charge distribution correction. From the mass yield distribution, the full-width at tenth-maximum of the light and heavy mass wings, 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 epi-cadmium neutron fission of 241Am were compared with similar data of thermal and 14.8-MeV neutron-induced fission to examine the role of excitation energy on the nuclear structure effect and P/V ratio.