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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.
N. D. Dudey, Robert R. Heinrich, J. Williams, Allen A. Madson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 35-43
Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28383
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Production rates (atoms/gram megawatt day) of 58Co, 54Mn, 55Fe, 63Ni, and 60Co in the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) irradiated stainless steel are reported. These rates can be used as precise flux and fluence monitors in fast reactors when appropriate spectrum-averaged cross sections are applied. Seven spectrum-averaged cross sections for the core and four spectrum-averaged cross sections at eight radial positions in EBR-II are also reported. The ratio of 54Mn/55Fe atoms produced from 54Fe represents a sensitive spectral hardness indicator for fast-reactor spectra. This study also indicates that in EBR-II the flux per megawatt measured at high power is the same as that measured at low power by other authors. Results show that a diffusion theory calculation provides a reasonably accurate representation of the flux in the core of EBR-II but overestimates the flux in the blanket region.