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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 5 | October 1966 | Pages 430-439
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27621
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Extensive neutron and gamma-ray measurements were performed in the reflector and primary shield of the NPR, a large power and plutonium production reactor. The measurements yielded fast, epithermal, and thermal-neutron flux and gamma-ray dose distributions through approximately 9 ft of reflector and shield assembly. Emphasis was placed on obtaining absolute flux and dose measurements with respect to reactor power. The measured fluxes and dose rates were compared to those calculated by the removal diffusion theory computer program MAC; a calculation in 18 removal groups and 31 diffusion groups. Agreement is excellent for fast-neutron flux and gamma-ray dose rate in the concrete shield and for thermal and epithermal flux in the graphite reflector. Calculations of thermal and epithermal fluxes in the concrete shield are in lesser agreement with measured values; generally within a factor of 2.