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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
Chonghai Cai, Kai Xu, Haixia An, Haicheng Wu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 164 | Number 3 | March 2010 | Pages 304-317
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE08-62TN
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Complete sets of neutron nuclear data, including all kinds of cross sections, angular distributions of elastic scattering, energy spectra and/or double-differential cross sections of all emitted particles, and gamma production data (production cross sections and multiplicity, angular distributions, and energy spectra) in all kinds of reactions for n + 63Cu and n + 65Cu below 20 MeV are calculated and evaluated. The calculated or evaluated cross sections are in good accordance with the experimental values for those reactions with experimental data. Particularly for the neutron leakage current in the benchmark Oktavian and the effective multiplication factors in six benchmark assemblies, our calculated values are in much better agreement with experimental data than those of several existing evaluation files.