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The balance between safety and productivity: RIPB design
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series on May 2.
James P. Phelps and Eugene V. Weinstock
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 3 | December 1968 | Pages 237-250
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A21089
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Accurate critical parameters have been obtained for bare, nearly homogeneous assemblies of enriched uranium and graphite having C/U atom ratios in the range 960 to 23 000. Among the quantities measured were keff, critical bucklings, extrapolation distances, spectral indices, and neutron lifetimes. Particular attention was paid to the problem of neutrons returning from the surroundings.