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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
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.