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ORNL to partner with Type One, UTK on fusion facility
Yesterday, Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it is in the process of partnering with Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. That partnership will have one primary goal: to establish a high-heat flux facility (HHF) at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run Energy Complex in Clinton, Tenn.
Sherif S. Nafee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 175 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 162-167
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the 16th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division / Radiation Measurements and General Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A12285
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Determining single-escape (SE), double-escape (DE), and full-energy (FE) peak efficiencies is helpful in prompt gamma-ray neutron activation analysis, in which identifying complicated gamma peaks as well as quantifying spectra is crucial. The FE peak efficiency was measured at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a closed-end, n-type high-purity germanium (HPGe) cylindrical detector using standard point sources, whereas SE and DE peak efficiencies and the SE-to-DE peak ratio for the HPGe detector were calculated using compact analytical expressions.