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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
A. F. Henry, J. D. Germann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 4 | July 1957 | Pages 469-480
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25411
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In a reactor of sufficient size and operating at sufficiently high power density, an oscillation in the spatial distribution of power may arise because of interplay between the effect of Xe135 on flux distribution and the fact that its appearance after fission is delayed by the decay time of I135. By use of a very simple reactor model the conditions required to establish such an instability are studied; amplitude and frequency characteristics of the oscillation are also investigated.
