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Become a knowledge manager at UWC 2024
The American Nuclear Society is now accepting applications for knowledge managers to work during the 2024 Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo. This year’s UWC, “Nuclear Momentum: Advancing Our Clean Energy Future,” will be held August 4–7, 2024, at the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort on Marco Island, Fla.=
V. Drüke, D. Filges, N. Kirch, R. D. Neef
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 4 | August 1975 | Pages 328-332
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A15424
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Experiments in a subcritical assembly with pebble-bed high-temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel and hydrogen ranging between 0 and 14.4 vol% were carried out to study the effects of water ingress on reactivity and to test the accuracy of diffusion-code calculations for small subcritical systems. Special emphasis is given to an adequate description of the influence of the water ingress on the diffusion properties of the pebble-bed system. The agreement between experimental and theoretical results is in all cases better than ±0.01 in keff.
