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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
C. K. Tzou, C. M. Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | November 1974 | Pages 246-251
Technical Paper | Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31480
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A cold fuel assay method has been developed for nondestructive burnup determination by gamma-ray spectroscopy. This method utilizes the product of neutron flux and time as one variable to avoid tedious treatment of neutron flux, resident time, and intermittent type of iteration. No chemical or mass spectroscopic analysis is needed; only the photopeak of 137Cs needs to be analyzed. The method has been applied to fuel element No. 25 of the Tsin-Hua open-pool reactor for burnup calculation. A 35-cm3 Ge(Li) detector connected to a 1024 MCA was used.
