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White House taps Douglas Weaver for NRC role
The Trump White House has nominated seasoned nuclear regulatory expert Douglas Weaver for a commissioner seat on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. If confirmed, Weaver would fill the seat vacated by NRC commissioner Annie Caputo, who resigned in July.
Weaver’s nomination was sent earlier today to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. If confirmed, he would finish the remainder of Caputo’s term, which expires June 30, 2026.
W. A. Haller, R. W. Perkins, J. M. Nielsen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 7 | July 1967 | Pages 436-443
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27842
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An instrumental method has been devised and tested for the direct measurement of 137Cs in fission product mixtures. The method is based on beta-gamma coincidence counting, and involves beta counting of the mixture in a liquid or plastic scintillator while simultaneously measuring the gamma-ray spectrum with a NaI(Tl) detector-multichannel analyzer arrangement. Cesium-137 is unique among the long-lived fission products in that its decay (actually its 137mBa daughter, T1/2 = 2.8 min) does not involve a prompt beta-gamma coincidence. The 137Cs is then measured from a noncoincidence gamma spectrum with comparatively little interference from the other fission products. The method is not directly applicable to recently irradiated fuels but has been applied to the quantitative measurement of 137Cs in 8-month-, 1.3-year- and 2.0-year-old material with standard deviations of about 3, 0.8, and 0.7%, respectively.
