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Diablo Canyon advocacy, Midwest nuclear legislation among April state news items
Pending, passed, and coveted legislation involving nuclear energy made their way across multiple state capitol buildings in the month of April. Here are a few notable updates from California, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri.
William Bradley Lewis
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 3 | November 1971 | Pages 276-280
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A31007
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A model is fitted to experimental data by means of a normalizing factor, λ(x), over a range of material compositions, x0 < x < x1. The fitting involves certain modifications of data points. The total discrepancy of the modifications is expressed as δ(x). To an error no greater than δ(x), a model agrees with experiment. Fitting was made to two-group diffusion theory, but the method has general applicability.