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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.
George I. Bell, W. A. Anderson, D. Galbraith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 1 | May 1963 | Pages 118-123
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-2
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A numerical program is described for calculating the probability distribution of neutrons or delayed neutron precursors in a multiplying assembly. The program obtains the probability distribution generating function, from which the distribution itself is found by inversion of a Laplace transform. Six groups of delayed neutrons may be used. The prompt neutron lifetime is arbitrary and neutron source and reactivity may be functions of time. The existence of an asymptotic probability distribution at late times is proved for constant reactivity. Six group results are shown to be in good agreement with experimental data from Godiva.