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Diversification and the common ground
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that we would see so many long-standing barriers to new nuclear development falling like dominoes? Public opinion, policy, regulatory reform, finance and investment, design maturity, nuclear fuel enrichment, and fuel fabrication capacity have all advanced with remarkable speed in the United States.
Conventional wisdom holds that the most effective way to scale up the nuclear supply chain is to do so strategically, matching investments to the needs of reactor developers.
Hamza Ayoub Abdessabour, Beladel Brahim, Sadallah Brahim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 7 | July 2025 | Pages 1062-1072
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2439680
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This paper presents an analytical formula for the neutron scattering cross section on even-even heavy nuclei using the rotational model and some assumptions as a Yukawa potential shape for neutron-nucleon interaction, rigid rotor approximation, and nuclear matter uniformly distributed within the nuclear matter. The most important characteristic in this study is the avoidance of any approximation of central potential, opposed to what usually happens: the expansion of the potential according to the power of β2, over the Legendre polynomial basis or within Fourier-Bessel analysis. Satisfying and encouraging results have been acquired despite the simplicity of the chosen model (rigid rotor model and the two-parameter potential).