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$40M investment to spur new nuclear developments in Idaho and Wyoming
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that its Economic Development Administration (EDA) intends to award $31 million to the Intermountain-West Nuclear Energy Corridor (INEC) Tech Hub. The Idaho Advanced Energy Consortium (IAEC), the group that leads the INEC Tech Hub, subsequently announced that matching donations from its stakeholder partners will bring the total investment up to $40 million.
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.
