Experimental and calculated scandium threshold reaction cross sections averaged over a 235U fission neutron spectrum

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-261

  Suarez P M ^a   Arribere M A ^a   Ribeiro Guevara, S ^a   Kestelman, A J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

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EID: 0000022362     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE97-A1934     Document Type: Article

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