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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 428-431
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26929
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The analysis of critical volumes of aqueous homogeneous solutions of uranium to aid in defining the 2200 m/sec neutron parameters for ENDF/B has been examined. The parameters for 233U and 235U are constrained by relating to the constant K obtained from the analysis of the critical systems. Here K is directly proportional to the hydrogen capture cross section at 2200 m/sec. This Note suggests that the capture cross section of hydrogen be removed from K and that a new constant K/σaH be defined by the critical systems. This new constant is the hydrogen-to-uranium ratio for an infinite critical system populated with neutrons having a Maxwellian energy distribution.