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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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.
Hideo Hirayama, Syuichi Ban, Shigeyuki Miura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 1 | May 1987 | Pages 66-72
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16366
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Electromagnetic cascades produced in lead with 2.5-GeV bremsstrahlung were studied by using a lead glass shower counter and a thin Nal(Tl) scintillator with the help of the Monte Carlo code. Measured pulse-height distributions that show the charged-particle track length or the energy deposition distributions in the detector caused by a single source photon are compared with calculated results. The energy spectra of transmitted particles obtained from the calculation are presented to show the behavior of the electromagnetic cascade development.
