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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
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.
John R. Huizenga
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Technical Paper | Session on Physics of Nuclear Materials Safeguards / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-1-20
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Theoretical expressions are developed for near barrier fission of even targets induced with dipole and quadrupole photons. Although the formulas are developed for a single-humped fission barrier and valid when the second barrier has the higher energy, the same equations are applicable for a two-humped barrier by introducing a more complicated expression for the fission transmission coefficients. Dipole fission of an odd mass target is discussed also. Some comparisons are made between theory and experiment.
