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Nuclear Technology | Volume 48 | Number 2 | April 1980 | Pages 110-116
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32457
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Calculations were performed for 238U and 232Th blankets for a fusion hybrid reactor. Comparisons between results using ENDF/B-III and ENDF/B-IV cross sections for 238U were made. Corrections to the latter cross-section set were suggested, bringing the computed results close to the reported experimental ones. Computations using ENDF/B-IV 232Th cross sections were found to agree very well with experiment.