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Each year, the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) recognizes graduate and undergraduate students for their innovative nuclear energy research. The winners of the Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research and Development Student Competition (INSC) receive honoraria along with travel and conference opportunities, including the chance to present their publications at the annual American Nuclear Society Winter Conference & Expo.
B. S. Finn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 4 | April 1960 | Pages 369-376
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25731
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Period-reactivity relationships were measured in the PDP, a large D2O-moderated reactor fueled with natural uranium. When compared with calculated relationships based on various delayed neutron parameters, the measured relationships were found to correspond almost exactly to those predicted from the delayed neutron parameters measured by Keepin for fission neutrons and by Bernstein for photoneutrons. Satisfactory agreement was also observed between values of the migration area obtained from a measured reactivity-buckling relationship and those obtained as the sum of the separately measured values of the thermal diffusion area and the neutron age.