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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
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.
Tohru Haga
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 2 | June 1972 | Pages 227-231
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22478
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Consideration is given to the use of booster rods in a D2O moderated H2O -cooled boiling water power reactor to provide reactivity control to override 135Xe buildup. A booster rod, generally containing highly 235U enriched uranium, is equivalent to a highly effluent fuel assembly. It is shown that the fuel distribution within the most effective booster rod is such that the fuel importance function is flat. Several models of booster rods are evaluated.
