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Weaver NRC reappointment gets OK, Senate vote next
The U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee has recommended Douglas Weaver be reappointed to a full five-year term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after his current term expires on June 30.
The committee voted 15-4 in support of Weaver’s nomination on Wednesday, clearing the way for a final vote on the Senate floor. If the Senate votes to confirm Weaver, he would serve on the NRC through June 30, 2031.
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The reported alpha-particle detector consists of eight flat proportional chambers connected in pairs. It is designed for measurement of the (n,α) reaction on resonance neutrons from a pulsed neutron source with a pulse duration of ∼50 ns. The target’s total area is 10 000 cm2, which allows the use of large amounts of investigated materials (up to 100 g). The detector is used as a low-background counter of alpha particles. Its background is <3 × 10−4 count/cm2·s at a neutron flux of >106 n/cm2·s. For an integral neutron flux of ∼1012 n/cm2, stable operation of the detector was obtained.