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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.
Dong H. Nguyen, Robert G. Bennett
Nuclear Technology | Volume 14 | Number 3 | June 1972 | Pages 284-291
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31118
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A crystal detector system, composed of a small LiI(Eu) crystal, highly enriched in 6Li, and a flexible light pipe, has been used to determine the fast- and thermal-neutron distributions resulting from a Pu-Be neutron source. The thermal-neutron flux is determined by the cadmium difference technique. It is found that the thermal flux thus determined agrees well with the two-group diffusion solution and with absolute foil measurement, but gamma-ray backgrounds cause serious problems in the fast flux determination by crystal. It is also found that the non-rigid light pipe offers a great deal of flexibility in the measuring process. The high efficiency in thermal-neutron measurement obtained (41%) implies that smaller crystals or longer light pipes can be used, thereby improving the accessibility of the detector. The crystal detector used is also sufficiently sensitive to follow the small change in flux magnitude with increasing temperature.