Atomic Energy Commission, example

Cecily C. Selby, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University A comment and a question. The comment relates to MIT in the 1970s, when Jerry Wiesner and Howard Johnson as president and chairman of MIT did exactly what you described in terms of finding women on the faculty. They actively promoted them and moved them, and that is how Sheila Widnall got to be Secretary of the Air Force and Shirley Jackson head of the Atomic Energy Commission. Margaret MacVicar was advanced before her premature death, and of course we all know of the continuing advance of Millie Dresselhaus. Jerry and Howard are the best example I know of being really proactive. 

An example of the operational environmental monitoring program presented in the Guide for Environmental Radiation Monitoring by the Japan Atomic Energy Commission is shown in Table 9.5. 

The lifetime of the anodes is, for example, 40 to 80 10 Ah in the type developed by the US Atomic Energy Commission. Since the voltage applied is well above the theoretical value, considerable amounts of heat, ca. 35 MJ/kg fluorine, have to be dissipated. On the other hand, the cooling water temperature must be maintained above the melting point of the electrolyte to prevent its solidification. 

Figure 3. An example of the log-normal distribution function in normalized linear form for CMD = 1.0 and Og = 2.0, showing the mode, median and mean of the size distribution, the surface area distribution median and mean diameters, the mass distribution median and mean diameters, and the diameter of average mass. Reproduced with permission from Raabe OG (1970). Generation and characterization of aerosols. In Inhalation Carcinogenesis (MG Hanna, P Nettersheim and JR Gilbert, eds), pp. 123-172. Proceedings of a Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Conference. Oak Ridge, TN, USA US Atomic Energy Commission...

Because the cost of producing heavy water is roughly inversely proportional to the deuterium content of plant feed, local variations are of major economic importance. The low deuterium content of the Columbia River at Trail, British Columbia, 0.0133 percent, made the cost of producing heavy water at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission s (AEC) plant at this location higher than if the Columbia River had been as rich in deuterium as the Niagara or the Nile, for example. 

See, for example, Donald J. Hughes and John. A. Harvey, in U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Neutron Cross Sections," McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1955. 

Fig. 9.6 Megaton weapon curves (US Department of Defence and Atomic Energy Commission). For all other weapon yields Table 9.1 should be used. For example...

A number of authors have previooisly demonstrated that some of the properties of liqtiids and polymeric materials may be described in terms of models in which a material is bound primarily by van der Waals forces. An early example of this is the calculation by de Boer indicating that the theoretical strength of j enol-formal-dehyde and m-cresol-formaldehyde polymers may be qxjalitatively described by considering dispersion interactions alone. Other examples of such treatments are those of Pastine, Ulbrich, and This work was supported by the U S. Atomic Energy Commission. 

In most other countries regulations or recommendations for a decrease of the radon daughter concentrations in homes have not been established. In USA and Canada limits have been given only for special cases, for example building on waste from uranium and phosphate industries (Atomic Energy Control Board, 1977 EPA, 1979 EPA, 1980). In Finland, there are general recommendations for homes (Finnish Radon Commission, 1982). 

As example a study made by the Department of Atomic Energy of India shows that in actual conditions the economic comparison between the Madras Atomic Power Station Unit I (235 MW(e)) and the Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station (3x200MW(e)), both commissioned in 1982, gives the following generation costs in Paisa (10 Ruppees) per kWh(e) with a capacity factor of 75% ... 

Numerical tables were an essential part of my earlier book on ion solvation and are also necessarily so in the present book on ions in solution and their solvation. These are interspersed in the places in the text where the quantities are being discussed, rather than being relegated to appendices, although the tables may disrupt the smooth flow of the text. Their provision, it is hoped, should make the present book as useful as a source book of data as was its predecessor. However, it must be stressed that there are some newer and corrected numerical data, for example, the CODATA thermochemical compilations or data examined by the European Commission on Atomic Energy that could not find their way into the preset book. Readers are also encouraged to look up recent volumes of the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data for the latest critically examined values. 

Nuclear reactors use radioactive fuels with atoms that can be easily split when struck by the proper energy neutrons. and Pu are the two most popular fuel materials, and the simplest to use within a nuclear reactor. Naturally occurring uranium contains only a small percentage of typically about 0.7 % of the total mass of natural uranium is Even though this means that IP is relatively rare in ordinary uranium samples, it is possible to produce a reactor that uses uranium in its natural state as the fuel source. For example, Fermi s Chicago Pile 1 used naturally occurring uranium as its fuel. However, most of the world s power reactors use enriched uranium in their core. Enriched fuels contain IP at concentrations of between 3.5 and 5 % (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, n.d.a). 

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