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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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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
G. D. Bouchey, S. J. Gage
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 211-214
Technical Paper and Note | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30928
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A fission gas sampling device for selectively locating leaking TRIGA reactor fuel elements was developed. The device, and the associated scintillation spectrometer, measures the radioactivity of the particulate daughter products of the fission gases escaping from a single failed fuel element. Details of the design of the device and the operating procedures are described. Several different approaches for locating faulty elements were evaluated and the most suitable one was used to locate a fuel element cladding break in the TRIGA reactor of the University of Texas at Austin.
