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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 130 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 386-390
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A2014
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The positive neutron temperature coefficient of reactivity of a dilute plutonium-water solution is discussed analytically and numerically. It is explained by the competition of the temperature sensitivity coefficients of microscopic thermal cross sections of fissile materials and absorbers. The use of 176Lu, 180Ta, or 167Er, which have absorption resonances at low energy, in the solution makes it possible for the neutron temperature coefficient of reactivity of a dilute plutonium-water solution to be negative.
