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The spotlight shines on a nuclear influencer
Brazilian model, nuclear advocate, and philanthropist Isabelle Boemeke, who the online TED lecture series describes as “the world’s first nuclear energy influencer,” was the subject of a recent New York Times article that explored her ardent support for and advocacy of nuclear technology.
H. J. Reilly, L. E. Peters, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 356-363
Fuel Cycle | Symposium on Theoretical Models for Predicting In-Reactor Performance of Fuel and Cladding Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28790
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method was developed for determining the optimum fuel utilization for the Plum Brook Reactor (PBR). The method used available PBR criticality data to incorporate the effects of neutron leakage and nonuniformity of burnup in a point model of the core. This allowed the model to predict the performance of the core as a function of new element weight and number of uses per element. A graphical model was devised to determine the optimum. The article shows the derivation of the model and its application for a typical PBR configuration.
