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Advanced reactor developer X-energy has announced that it has closed an oversubscribed Series D financing round of approximately $700 million. The funding proceeds are expected to be used to help continue the expansion of its supply chain and the commercial pipeline for its Xe-100 advanced small modular reactor and TRISO-X fuel, according the company.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | December 1981 | Pages 674-682
Technical Paper | Analyse | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32812
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An automated solution assay instrument (SAI) based on transmission-corrected gamma-ray measurements has been developed and installed in the Plutonium Processing Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The instrument was designed for rapid, nondestructive assay of plutonium process solutions over a wide range of concentrations (0.05 to 500 g Pu/i, with 10−4 to 5 g Am/ℓ) and for routine operation by process technicians who lack instrumentation experience. For a 25-ml sample, the precision is <0.8% for concentrations >30 g Pu/ℓ within a 1000-s assay and <1.0% for concentrations >4 g Pu/ℓ within a 2000-s assay. The results of test and evaluation demonstrate that the SAI is a reliable and accurate instrument for assaying plutonium process solutions.
