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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
P. I. Johansson, B. Holmqvist
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 4 | April 1977 | Pages 695-708
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A15210
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The prompt fission neutron spectrum emitted by a sample of 235U irradiated with 0.53-MeV neutrons has been measured in the 0.6- to 15-MeV energy range by using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques. In the present work, a major effort was made to obtain an accurate experimental determination of the energy response and efficiency function of the neutron detector over the entire neutron energy range of interest. For this purpose, the TOF spectrometer was calibrated with respect to energy in the 0.5- to 21-MeV range by observing neutron groups from various nuclear reactions. The energy dependence of the neutron detector efficiency was determined by observing the angular distributions of the H(n,n)H process in the 1- to 15-MeV energy range. The overlapping 0.6- to 3-MeV energy range was covered by the T(p,n)3He reaction. The result of the fission neutron spectrum measurements has been used to find a suitable distribution function describing the data in the entire energy interval. The best description was obtained with the distribution N1(E) exp(–1.02E)sinh(2.32E)1/2.
