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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.
KArl H. Puechl
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 2 | February 1962 | Pages 151-156
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26052
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The influence of plutonium as a fuel constituent on burner reactor behavior is examined. Both the SM-1 and the Shippingport seed lattices are investigated. It is found that the decrease in the effective absorption cross section of Pu240 with fuel burnup gives the plutonium the characteristic of a self-compensating fuel, thereby leading to the extension of core life with minimum shim control requirements. The illustrated behavior is similar to that which was previously shown to be possible for converter-type reactors (1).
