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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
P. Philbin, F. Senftle, D. Duffey, P. Wiggins, A. G. Evans
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 4 | December 1971 | Pages 404-406
Technical Note | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30991
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A comparison is made of the experimental neutron capture background from 3 to l0 MeV of two 252Cf neutron sources, one encapsulated in stainless steel and one in Zircaloy-2. The background of the Zircaloy-2 source was significantly lower than for the stainless steel source above 6 MeV because of the absence of the high energy capture gamma peaks due to iron, chromium, and nickel. Below 5 MeV, the californium fission gamma rays are the major source of interference.
