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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.
J. T. Mihalczo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 4 | December 1972 | Pages 489-504
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22568
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Cylinders and cylindrical annuli of uranium metal (93.15 wt% 235U), with diameters varying from 7 to 15 in., were assembled to delayed criticality with graphite reflectors varying in thickness up to 18 in. or with an effectively infinite thickness polyethylene on all outer surfaces. In one series of measurements a polyethylene reflector was also placed adjacent to only one flat surface of the cylinders. The multiplication factor calculated by both Sn transport and Monte Carlo methods, with various sets of cross sections agreed very well with the experimental values. As a result of the high order of Sn and the large number of spatial intervals required, the computing time for the transport theory calculations was a factor of 10 larger than that required for the Monte Carlo calculations with standard deviations of 1%.