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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.
Woo Sik Jung, Nam Zin Cho
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 384-395
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23836
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Based on the maximum entropy principle used to reconstruct the neutron flux distribution in nodal calculations, an improved method that utilizes Lagrange multipliers and incorporates corner-point fluxes is described. The probability distribution that maximizes the entropy provides the most unbiased objective probability distribution within the partial information known. The flux distribution on the boundary of a fuel assembly is transformed into the probability distribution in the entropy expression. The most objective boundary flux distribution is then deduced by numerical evaluation of the Lagrange multipliers. This boundary flux distribution is used as the boundary condition in an embedded heterogeneous assembly calculation to provide the detailed flux distribution.