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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.
K. R. Merckx
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 3 | July 1961 | Pages 223-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25964
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The temperature distributions within plate or thin tubular fuel elements with bonded end closures are determined with an eigen-function expansion. A one-term approximation is given for end caps longer than the plate thickness. Numerical examples are included for uranium fuel elements with Zircaloy cladding and bonded Zircaloy end caps whose lengths are twice, once, and one-fifth the thickness of the fuel plate. For these examples the ratios of the maximum exterior end cap temperature to the maximum temperature of the fuel material (coolant temperature considered as the base temperature) were 0.38, 0.68, and 0.954, respectively.
