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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.
Siaka O. Yusuf, David K. Wehe
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 399-408
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23765
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Analog and digital methods have been developed to compensate for the time delay associated with rhodium self-powered neutron detector signals. This delay is caused by the decay of the neutron-activated rhodium and results in a current signal with unfavorable time response characteristics. The compensating analog method is based on the use of lead-lag networks to eliminate undesirable poles and zeros. The digital method takes digitized signals and numerically solves the inverse kinetics equation that relates reactor flux to the detector current at all earlier times. These methods were tested in a realistic reactor environment, and the results illustrate the accuracy achieved using each method.