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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
E. E. Morris
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 3 | March 1976 | Pages 246-260
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26823
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The energy-dependent neutron flux has been calculated for a point-isotropic fission source as a function of distance from the source in an infinite medium of sodium. The results were obtained by the moments method. Energy spectra are presented graphically for five distances from the source between 0 and 8 m and for energies between 1 eV and 15 MeV. Error estimates due to causes other than cross-section uncertainties or interpolations are made. The calculations are compared with a previously reported Monte Carlo calculation and with experimental measurements. Satisfactory agreement is observed.