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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
B. Cameron Reed
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 12 | December 2022 | Pages 1890-1893
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2084582
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This technical note offers comments and suggestions regarding four issues involved with the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of 1940: (1) Propagation of transcription errors in subsequent publishings of the memorandum; (2) Data bearing on F&P’s adoption of 10 b as the fission cross section of 235U; (3) The origin of their assertion that the critical radius is about 0.8 times the mean free path for fission if scattering is disregarded; and (4) The origin of a multiplicative factor of 0.2 in their yield formula and the consistency of their calculations.
