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NRC completes environmental review of Dresden SLR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that the environmental impacts of renewing the operating license of the Dresden nuclear power plant outside Chicago, Ill., for an additional 20 years are not great enough to prohibit doing so.
Hideo Hirayama
Nuclear Technology | Volume 77 | Number 1 | April 1987 | Pages 60-67
Technical Paper | Radioisotopes and Isotope Separation | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33952
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Exposure buildup factors for plane normal sources have been calculated with an electron gamma shower Monte Carlo code, EGS4, for water, concrete, iron, and lead in the 10 to 100 MeV range. Electron reactions like multiple scattering, collision, and continuous energy loss are taken into account together with bremsstrahlung. The buildup factors in this energy region are affected very much by the energy loss mechanism of electrons and positrons in the medium. The energy of electrons or positrons in lead is mainly converted to photons via the bremsstrahlung reaction; therefore, buildup factors increase rapidly with the increase of the photon energy. In the case of water, the energy of electrons or positrons is mainly spent in ionization or excitation. Buildup factors for water decrease gradually to 40 MeV and increase gradually above that energy. The buildup factors in each medium are calculated for eight-source energy from 10 to 100 MeV for penetration depths as great as 10 mfp.