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My Story: John L. Swanson—ANS member since 1978
. . . and in 2019, on his 90th birthday.
Swanson in 1951, the year of his college graduation . . .
My pre-college years were spent in a rural suburb of Tacoma, Wash. In 1947, I enrolled in Reed College, a small liberal arts school in Portland, Ore.; I majored in chemistry and graduated in 1951. While at Reed, I met and married a young lady with whom I would raise 3 children and spend the next 68 years of my life—almost all of them in Richland, Wash., where I still live.
I was fortunate to have a job each of my “college summers” that provided enough money to cover my college costs for the next year; I don’t think that is possible these days. My job was in the kitchen/dining hall of a salmon cannery in Alaska. Room and board were provided and the cannery was in an isolated location, so I could save almost every dollar of my salary.
Joseph A. Christensen, R. A. Borrelli
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 11 | November 2022 | Pages 1333-1348
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2087832
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This work uses evaluated criticality safety benchmarks to examine the effect of heterogeneity in high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) systems. A subset of benchmarks selected based on their composition parameters is slightly modified to artificially introduce heterogeneity, and the difference in the effective multiplication factor between the homogeneous benchmark and the modified model is determined. The difference in the multiplication factor is evaluated for correlations against both the moderator ratio and the enrichment of the benchmarks, and the correlations are examined using established statistical methods. In several cases, statistically significant correlations are observed and discussed, and the lack of expected correlations is also discussed.