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Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
S. Shalev, G. Shani, Z. Fishelson, and Y. Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 259-266
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A21141
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As part of a comprehensive project to investigate the validity of pulsed-neutron measurements in small systems, we have measured the extrapolation length in a pulsed light-water system with B2 = 0.11/cm2. Space- and time-dependent flux distributions were obtained with a miniature fission chamber and were analyzed by least-squares techniques. Special attention was paid to the extraction of the fundamental mode and to the overall internal consistency of the results. The thermal-neutron extrapolation length, corrected to 20°C, was found to be 0.300 ± 0.015 cm.