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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
C. B. Bigham, B. G. Chidley, R. B. Turner
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 1 | May 1963 | Pages 68-84
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26478
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The slowing-down spectrum in a CANDU-type reactor cell has been studied using resonance activation techniques. The measurements covered the energy range 1.46 ev to 367 ev. The effects of replacing the heavy water coolant with mixtures of light and heavy water and light water were studied. Measurements were also made in a channel without fuel clusters. The spectra observed in the normal cell were approximately 1/E throughout the cell except for depressions caused by prominent U238 resonances. With no fuel in the cell, large departures from 1/E were observed.
