Engineering Papers⌕ Search

SEARCH · Engineering Papers

Results for “Nuclear radiation”

Search indexed NASA NTRS and DOE OSTI research on propulsion, heat transfer, battery materials and energy systems. Follow report and document links to the original sources.

Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.

At least 649 records · Page 36
All sourcesNASA NTRSDOE OSTI
DOE OSTI2026

IER-620 CED-3b: Experiment Execution Summary for the Pulsed-Neutron Die-Away Experiments (PNDA) with Propylene Glycol and Mobilmet 423

There is a strong need for new benchmarks to validate neutron thermal scattering laws (TSLs). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has designed a Pulsed-Neutron Die Away (PNDA) testbed for this purpose. The experiment has a deuterium-tritium (D-T) neutron generator that impinges a 10 -4 s, mono-energetic pulse of 14.1 MeV neutrons on a target sample. After the pulse, the neutron population moderates and establishes a thermal equilibrium within the sample, with a fundamental spatial mode and characteristic decay-time eigenvalue, ⍺. The ⍺ eigenvalue can be extracted from the experimental measurements of the time-dependent neutron flux coming off the surface of the sample and can then be used as an integral parameter (similar to k eff ) to validate nuclear data involved with neutron migration, thermalization, and absorption. For moderating materials and geometric configurations, the ⍺ eigenvalue is heavily dependent on thermal neutron scattering of the target material. For that reason, a PNDA experiment can have a higher sensitivity to TSLs than is commonly available with the k eff parameter in critical experiments.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2026

Integral Experiment Execution of Thermal or Epithermal eXperiments using Plutonium with Polyethylene and Iron, IER 519, TEX-Hanford (-Iron), CED-3b

This report documents the execution of experiments and measurements for IER 519, Thermal/Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) for Hanford applications, using plutonium Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR) plates moderated by interstitial polyethylene and iron (Fe) absorber plates. Initial hand stack, mass, and dimensional measurements were performed in July 2025. The experiments were completed over three weeks from December 2025 to January 2026 at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) at the Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS). All photos and critical data were provided by NCERC and experimenters in LANL’s NEN-2.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2026

TEX-Chlorine for TerraPower - Experimental Execution Report

This report describes the critical configurations of the TEX4TerraPower project that were performed in FY26Q4. Within this report, the configurations are presented along with physical measurements performed in support of benchmarking. TEX4TerraPower builds upon the TEX-Chlorine experiments, which in turn were based on the TEX-HEU experiments. Similar to TEX-Chlorine, the TEX4TerraPower configurations iteratively layered HEU fuel with sodium chloride (NaCl) absorbers. However, the main difference in the density achieved during the fabrication process of the sodium chloride absorbers. Unlike TEX-Chlorine, which was able to achieve ~70% theoretical density, the TEX4TerraPower salt plates achieved >90% theoretical density by hydraulically pressing the salt.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗
NASA NTRS1975

Nuclear emulsion measurements of the astronauts' radiation exposures on Skylab missions 2, 3, and 4

On the Skylab missions, Ilford G.5 and K.2 emulsions were flown as part of passive dosimeter packs carried by the astronauts on their wrists. Due to the long mission times, latent image fading and track crowing imposed limitations on a quantitative track and grain count analysis. For Skylab 2, the complete proton energy spectrum was determined within reasonable error limits. A combined mission dose equivalent of 2,490 millirems from protons, tissue stars and neutrons was measured on Skylab 2. A stationary emulsion stack, kept in a film vault drawer on the same mission, displayed a highly structured directional distribution of the fluence of low-energy protons (enders) reflecting the local shield distribution. On the 59 and 84-day mission 3 and 4, G.5 emulsions had to be cut on the microtom to 5-7 microns for microscopic examination. Even so, the short track segments in such thin layers precluded a statistically reliable grain count analysis. However, the K.2 emulsions still allowed accurate proton ender counts without special provisions.

Schaefer, H. J.↗
NASA NTRS1987

A radiative bow shock wave (?) driven by nuclear ejecta in a Seyfert galaxy

New VLA maps at 2 cm of the 13-arcsec-scale linear radio source in the center of NGC 1068 are described. The northeast lobe shows a limb-brightened conical morphology, very sharp 'leading' edges, and a magnetic field running parallel to these edges. The spectral index between 2 and 6 cm in these line-brightened regions is near 1.0. The northeast subpeak has a very steep radio spectrum between 18 and 2 cm which is attributed to inverse Compton losses of the relativistic electrons on the infrared photons. The spectral indices in the southwest lobe lie in the range 0.9-1.5 except in its northern parts, where a much larger index is found. The northeast lobe radio emission could arise in either the cocoon of old jet material which has passed through the internal shock in the ejecta and blown out to either side, or in interstellar material compressed by a bow shock wave driven into the galactic ISM.

Wilson, Andrew S.↗