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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.
Mark T. Robinson, O. S. Oen, D. K. Holmes
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 1 | May 1961 | Pages 61-69
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25931
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
As an aid to the interpretation of radiation damage phenomena, calculations have been made of the energy spectrum of the fast neutrons in graphite-moderated reactor systems. A detailed study of the effect of scattering symmetry on the slowing down of neutrons from monoenergetic sources in homogeneous systems shows the importance of including a reasonably accurate representation of the scattering symmetry in estimates of fast neutron spectra. The neutron collision density and the flux density are computed for fission neutrons slowing down in an infinite, homogeneous graphite reactor. The effects of source heterogeneity are examined by applying age theoretical methods to the ORNL Graphite Reactor. The results of the calculations are in good agreement with the limited amount of experimental data available.