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Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 4 | December 1975 | Pages 680-691
Technical Paper | Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24341
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The coherency transfer function (CTF) is a method for summing seismograms from multiple nearly coherent sources by using a frequency domain transformation. Ground motion predictions for the nuclear explosive Rio Blanco experiment are calculated for peak vector amplitudes of acceleration, velocity, and displacement and are compared to the Rio Blanco data and the results of other prediction techniques. Predictions of amplitudes are higher than experimental results by a few percent for acceleration and displacement and by 20% for velocity. Data regression slopes are ∼12% greater than predicted values for acceleration but <5% greater for displacement and velocity. CTF predictions are found to agree with experimental results as good as or better than values predicted by other methods.