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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.
H. D. Brown
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 5 | September 1957 | Pages 687-693
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25436
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The solution of the equations describing the reactor state is obtained by numerical integration of the differential equations on an IBM-650. The general description includes the dependence of lattice constants and absorption cross sections upon the temperatures of various components and accommodates the effects of manipulations of the geometric buckling and of the total absorption cross section. The reactor kinetic equations are put into difference form suitable for numerical solution. Measures are described for eliminating divergences introduced by the numerical treatment of the coupling among temperature coefficients, delayed neutrons, and flux.
