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(1980)This thesis reports the effects that the scattering and absorption of photons have on the ability to produce tomographic images of an internal gamma-ray source distribution. Computer simulations of the photon-transport ...
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(1999)The helicon antenna sits remotely outside the vacuum system, so all shadowing and contamination problems which the other two sources exhibit are eliminated. Ionization fractions to the substrate of 51 +/- 10% with a ...
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(2010-08-20)Conventional 3-D external beam radiation therapy for breast cancer, although a vast improvement over traditional therapy, does not take into account respiratory motion. With breast cancer patients, this motion can expose ...
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(1992)The risk reduction potential of the class of artificial neural networks based on the Barto-Sutton architecture is established. The risk associated with nuclear power operations is characterized by sequences of discrete ...
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(1980)A fuel pin failure model is developed and incorporated into a fast-running computer program. The model is designed to predict irradiated fuel-pin cladding rupture during a hypothetical transient-overpower (TOP) accident ...
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(2012-02-06)The Axial Offset Anomaly (AOA) is a major impediment to increases in reactor fuel performance preventing PWRs from operating with even more efficient core designs than they are at present. It is a phenomenon where boron ...
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(2008)The PMNIM is then used to study the transition to turbulence in Arnold-Beltrami-Childress (ABC) flows. These flows display the interesting phenomenon of heteroclinic cycles. The results are obtained for two wavenumbers: k ...
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(2010-05-19)In this dissertation, a new lattice Boltzmann model, called the artificial interface lattice Boltzmann model (AILB model), is proposed for the simulation of two-phase dynamics. The model is based on the principle of free ...
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(2017-05-05)Alternative slow neutron detection technologies are desired in response to needs by homeland security and radiation safety. Superheated droplet detectors (SDD) have the potential to be used in both situations because they ...
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(1994)Pu(VI) speciation and solubility with phosphate was examined at pH from 0.3 to 12.2, Pu(VI) concentrations from 5 $\times\ {\rm 10}\sp{-5}$ M to 1.3 $\times\ {\rm 10}\sp{-3}$ M and phosphate concentrations up to 0.6 M. ...
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(1996)High-volume air samplers were used to collect aerosol samples on Whatman 41 air filters at the Canadian air sampling stations Burnt Island, Egbert and Point Petre. Once collected, the samples were analyzed for trace elements ...
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(1992)Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) is an alternative approach to fusion power that offers the ability to burn advanced fuels like D-He$\sp3$ in a non-Maxwellian, high density core. These aneutronic reactions are ideal ...
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