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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.
Herbert Goldstein, Jeremiah Certaine
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 1 | May 1961 | Pages 16-23
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25924
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The moments method has been used to calculate the flux age at 1.44 ev in D2O and D2O-H2O mixtures of neutrons from various point isotropic sources. For the neutrons from a D-D source averaged overall solid angle and operating at a deuteron energy of 200 kev, the age in 99.8% D2O was computed to be 118.6 ± 1.2 cm2, in good agreement with the experimental value of Spiegel and Richardson. The rate of change of age for this source with very small admixtures of H2O was found to be —4.5% per 1% H2O, which agrees with the results of experiment and other calculations. Flux ages to 1.44 ev were also calculated for seven monoenergetic point sources from 2.00 to 2.98 Mev in energy. The approximate linearity of these ages with source energy is used to show that uncertainties in the angular distribution of the D-D source neutrons have a negligible effect on the averaged age. It is also shown that the 2.4 Mev antiresonance in oxygen is manifested in the age in D2O only as a correction to the first flight term.
