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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
H. R. Lukens, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1965 | Pages 597-602
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20590
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A method of measuring absolute numbers of photons from beta-particle-induced fluorescence of liquids was used to obtain absolute rate-constant values for fluorescence and fluorescence quenching in toluene and toluene-base scintillator solutions. The average number of fluorescent-state toluene molecules produced by 14C beta particles and fluorescence efficiencies based on that number were obtained.
