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Radiant signs contract on microreactors for the military
California-based microreactor developer Radiant Industries has announced the signing of what it calls “the first-ever agreement” to deliver a mass-manufactured nuclear microreactor to a U.S. military base. The contract was signed with the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the U.S. Air Force as part of the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program.
W. W. Strohm
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 183-189
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28048
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Plutonium-238 in contaminated trash and equipment contained in steel drums was determined by measuring, with a Nal(Tl) detector, the intensity of the 765-keV gamma ray from the decay of 238Pu. By gamma-ray stripping, the contributions of higher energy gamma rays to the 76S-keV gamma-ray photoelectric peak could be subtracted, despite the large amount of scattering material present in the drum. The transmission of the 765-keV gamma ray inside the drum was determined by measuring the transmission through the drum of the 765-keV gamma ray from external 238Pu standard sources. The uncertainty in the measurements is ±28% at the 95% confidence level when the drum contains ≥0.180 g of 238Pu.
