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Each year, the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) recognizes graduate and undergraduate students for their innovative nuclear energy research. The winners of the Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research and Development Student Competition (INSC) receive honoraria along with travel and conference opportunities, including the chance to present their publications at the annual American Nuclear Society Winter Conference & Expo.
C. Eggler, C. M. Huddleston, V. E. Krohn, G. R. Ringo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1956 | Pages 391-408
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A28777
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The neutron spectra at two positions in the core and two positions in the inner blanket of the Experimental Breeder Reactor in Idaho have been measured by means of beams extracted from these positions. The energy range covered was from 75 kev to 4 Mev. A cloud chamber was used for the measurement from 75 kev to 1 Mev and recoil-proton tracks in nuclear plates for that from 0.8 to 4 Mev. Reaction rate ratios measured inside the reactor agree well with those calculated from known cross sections and the spectra found in the beams.