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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.
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Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24383
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The Army Pulse Radiation Facility Reactor is a fast pulse, or burst, reactor generally used to provide a fast neutron environment In response to several test requirements, a number of fast neutron-to-gamma converter shields have been designed, calibrated, and placed into operation to produce a pulsed or steady-state gamma environment of ionizing radiation. The four basic converter configurations are (a) a narrow pulse converter box which has produced a maximum gamma dose rate of 3.8 × 108 rad/sec with a pulse width at half-maximum power of 50 μsec; (b) a wide pulse converter box which has produced 6.7 × 107 rad/sec at 400 μsec; (c) a narrow pulse converter cavity that has produced 7.7 × 108 rad/sec at 50 μsec; and (d) a wide pulse converter cavity that has produced 7.7 × 107 rad/sec at 1 msec. In terms of rads tissue, the gamma-to-neutron dose ratio varies from 0.1 (no converter) to ∼5; while in terms of rads (silicon), the neutron dose is almost 2 orders of magnitude less than the gamma dose.