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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
J. Vande Pitte, J. Wagemans, A. Gusarov, I. Uytdenhouwen, C. Detavernier, J. Lauwaert
Nuclear Technology | Volume 206 | Number 5 | May 2020 | Pages 758-765
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1697172
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Neutron transmutation doping is used to create high-quality silicon with a specific target resistivity. By implementing neutron absorbers, it is possible to obtain a broader range of postirradiation resistivities. To develop this method, the influence of neutron absorbers on the reactor spectrum in Belgian Reactor 1 was numerically simulated and experimentally verified. A comparison between the modeled reactor spectrum and the spectrum obtained through activation foils showed good agreement. These data were used to calculate the resistivity of silicon under cadmium and hafnium foils with different thicknesses after neutron irradiation. Experimental four-point probe measurements confirmed the calculated resistivities. Hence, the research shows that tailoring the reactor spectrum using neutron absorbers allows for a large range of final resistivities or doping concentrations in silicon during a single irradiation cycle.