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The AP1000 reactor internals consist of two major assemblies the upper internals and the lower core support assembly. The upper internals consist of the upper support, the upper core plate, the support columns and the guide tube assemblies. Figure 3.9-6 of the Reference 6.1 shows the upper core support assembly. The major containment and support member of the reactor internals is the lower core support assembly, which is shown in Figure 3.9-5 of the Reference 6.1. This assembly consists of the core barrel, the lower core support plate, the secondary core support, the vortex suppression plate, the core shroud, neutron panels, radial supports and related attachment hardware. 

Fig. 4. A schematic two-dimensional illustration of the idea for an information theory model of hydrophobic hydration. Direct insertion of a solute of substantial size (the larger circle) will be impractical. For smaller solutes (the smaller circles) the situation is tractable a successful insertion is found, for example, in the upper panel on the right. For either the small or the large solute, statistical information can be collected that leads to reasonable but approximate models of the hydration free energy, Eq. (7). An important issue is that the solvent configurations (here, the point sets) are supplied by simulation or X-ray or neutron scattering experiments. Therefore, solvent structural assumptions can be avoided to some degree. The point set for the upper panel is obtained by pseudo-random-number generation so the correct inference would be of a Poisson distribution of points and = kTpv where v is the van der Waals volume of the solute. Quasi-random series were used for the bottom panel so those inferences should be different. See Pratt et al. (1999).

Figure 5. Model spectra of a naked neutron star. The emitted spectrum with electron-phonon damping accounted for and Tsurf = 106 K. Left panel uniform surface temperature right panel meridional temperature variation. The dashed line is the blackbody at Tsurf and the dash-dotted line the blackbody which best-fits the calculated spectrum in the 0.1-2 keV range. The two models shown in each panel are computed for a dipole field Bp = 5 x 1013 G (upper solid curve) and Bp = 3 x 1013 G (lower solid curve). The spectra are at the star surface and no red-shift correction has been applied. From Turolla, Zane and Drake (2004).

Figure 3. The energy per particle for symmetric nuclear matter (left panel) and pure neutron matter (central panel) for the Reid93 interaction. The dashed line refers to a ccBHF calculation, the full line to a SCGF calculation. The right panel displays the SE in these two approaches.

Fet us now confront the EOS predicted by the phenomenological TBF and the microscopic one. In both cases the BHF approximation has been adopted with same two-body force (Argonne uis). In the left panel of Fig. 4 we display the equation of state both for symmetric matter (lower curves) and pure neutron matter (upper curves). We show results obtained for several cases, i.e., i) only two-body forces are included (dotted lines), ii) TBF implemented within the phenomenological Urbana IX model (dashed lines), and iii) TBF treated within... 

Figure 5. The neutron star gravitational mass (in units of solar mass Mq ) is displayed vs. the radius (left panel) and the normalized central baryon density pc (po = 0.17 fm-3) (rightpanel).

Figure 9. Neutron star gravitational mass vs. radius (left panel) and the central baryon density pc (right panel). Calculations involving different nucleonic TBF are compared.

Neutron Activation Analytical Survey of Some Intact Medieval Glass Panels and Related Specimens... 

Figure 5. Comparison of phonon DoS neutron measurements [34] (symbols) with PC spectra for NbB2 and TaB2 [33] after subtraction of the rising background (solid curves). The dotted curve in the left panel shows the PC spectrum of ZrB2 [33] for comparison.

Let us only note that after 5 minutes - most of neutrons are in helium-4 nuclei, most protons are free we see also that much smaller amounts of deuterium, helium-3 and lithium-7 are synthetized. Moreover, a lower density, growing Coulomb barriers, a stability gap at masses 5 and 8 will work against the formation of heavier elements. This elemental composition will be unchanged until the formation of the first stars. See the three vertical panels of... 

Panel on Assessment of the Practicality of Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis for Aviation Security, National Research Council, Assessment of the Practicality of Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis for Aviation Security, National Academies Press, Washington (2002)... 

FIGURE 8.2 Structure factors S(QZ) obtained from neutron-scattering patterns of butylam-monium vermiculite gels (upper panels) and from a 0.1 M protonated butylammonium salt solution with no clay (lowest panel). The upper panels show S(QZ) for gels prepared in a 0.1 M deuterated salt solution and in 0.1 and 0.01 M protonated salt solutions. The momentum transfer Q was perpendicular to the clay plates, and the structure factor S(QZ) has been normalized after correction for background scattering and absorption. 

The shielding blanket is composed of water-cooled steel modules, which are directly supported by the vacuum vessel and are effective in moderating the 14MeV neutrons, with a water-cooled copper mat bonded to the surface of the modules on the plasma side, and protected from interaction with the plasma by beryllium. Manufacturing considerations can be found elsewhere [48]. The first wall incorporates two start-up limiters located in two equatorial ports. With the aim to reduce cost and nuclear waste, the design includes a modular and separable first wall. This allows damaged or eroded blanket modules to be repaired inside the hot cell either by replacement of panels or by plasma spraying or other methods. 

Figure 13 (a) Neutron diffraction study of the structure of a single layer of butane adsorbed to a MgO(lOO) surface. The sawtooth shaped peaks in the diffraction pattern indicate that the molecular fihn is two-dimensional. Panel (b) illustrates how the four molecules in the imit cell (a = 29.5 A b = 4.21 A) are arranged. The molecules are foimd to register with the MgO lattice with cell a 1 1 x 1 1 configuration ... 

Figure 1 A display of the isotopes of the nohle gases and neighboring isotopes in the familiar chart of the nuclides format. The abscissa is neutron number (AO and the ordinate is proton number (Z). The box corresponding to any pair (Z, N) represents an isotope an element is represented by a horizontal row. Boxes for stable isotopes are shown with solid outline for the noble gases, approximate solar (in the case of He, protosolar) isotope ratios are shown at the bottom of each box. Selected unstable isotopes are shown as boxes with broken line edges. The left-superscript isotope label is the atomic weight A (= Z - - N). The five panels show regions around the five noble gases (excluding Rn).

Figure 5 A display of prominent exotic (presolar) noble-gas compositions (from Anders and Zinner, 1993). In the left two panels, for each isotope on the abscissa the ordinate is the ratio (to °Xe) in the HL component (left panel) or the G (formerly termed Xe-S) component (center panel), divided by the equivalent ratio in solar xenon (i.e., solar xenon would plot with all isotopes at unity on the ordinate). The HL component shows the defining characteristics of enriched heavy and light isotopes. For the G-component, the pattern is that expected for s-process (slow neutron capture) nucleosynthesis. The right panel is a three-isotope diagram analogous to Figure 4, except that both scales are logarithmic. It shows experimental limits for the R-component (formerly Ne-E(L)) and the G-component (formerly...

By using of the SEP event first few minutes NM data we can determine by Eq. 23 - 25 effective parameters / , Ki(r), and N0(r), corresponded to the rigidity about 7-10 GY, and then by Eq. 22 we determine the forecasting curve of expected SEP flux behavior for total neutron intensity. This curve we compare with time variation of observed total neutron intensity. Really we use data for more than three moments of time by fitting obtained results in comparison with experimental data to reach the minimal residual (see Fig. 4, which contains 8 panels for time moments t = 110 min up to t = 220 min after 10.00 UT of 29 September, 1989). 

Fig. 28. The surface abundances evolution of 22Ne, 23Na, and the neutron-rich Mg isotopes during the TP-AGB for the 6Mq, Z = 0.02 model (top panel), and for the 6M0, Z = 0.004 model (bottom panel)...

Fig. 1. Dependence of total cross-sections on the interaction energy for neutrons (top panel) and charged particles (bottom panel). Note the presence of resonances (narrow or broad) superimposed on a slowly varying non-resonant cross-section (after [13])...

Fig. 36. Snapshots in the nuclidic chart of flow patterns in a ID model of a detonating He layer accreted onto a 0.8M WD. The selected times and corresponding temperatures or densities are given in different panels. The stable nuclides are indicated with open squares. The magic neutron and proton numbers are identified by vertical and horizontal double lines. The drip lines predicted by a microscopic mass model are also shown. The abundances are coded following the grey scales shown in each panel. At early times (bottom left panel), an r-process type of flow appears on the neutron-rich side of the valley of nuclear stability. At somewhat later times (top left panel), the material is pushed back to the neutron-deficient side rather close to the valley of /3-stability. As time passes (two right panels), a pn-process [87] develops...

The resulting elemental abundances predicted by standard BBN are shown in Figure 4 as a function of tf [22]. The left plot shows the abundance of e by mass, Y, and die abundances of the other three isotopes by number. The curves indicate the central predictions from BBN, while die bands correspond to the uncertainty in the predicted abundances. This theoretical uncertainty is shown explicitly in the right panel as a function of rf. The uncertainty range in He reflects primarily the la uncertainty in the neutron lifetime. 

FIGURE 8.26 The left panel represents the sum of proton and neutron densities as function of nuclear radius for 0 without (top) and with an antiproton (denoted by AP). The left and right parts of the upper middle panel show separately the proton and neutron densities, the lower part of this panel displays the antiproton density (with minus sign). The right panel shows the scalar (negative) and vector (positive) parts of the nucleon potential. Small contributions shown in the lower row correspond to the isovector (p-meson) part. 

FIGURE 8.30 The left panel shows the sum of proton and neutron densities (top) as well as the corresponding sum for antibaryons for the a-a system. The right panels shows the scalar potentials and the single particles levels of the nucleons and antinucleons. 

Her current research interests include studies of miscibility and physical aging in blends, nanophase separation in polymers with long side-chains, polymer dynamics, liquid crystalline polymers, composites, and systems containing nanoparticles. A common feature of these studies is the use of scattering techniques, especially neutron scattering, to study the local structure, conformation, and dynamics in polymers. She has written various reviews and book chapters in this area and has served on selection panels to allocate beam time at neutron facilities. 

The electrical panels associated with the safe shutdown function of the Neutron Control Subsystem control equipment will be seismically qualified by test. (Ref. 9)... 

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