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MARVEL team shares lessons learned through microreactor development
On June 1 at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colo., a team from Idaho National Laboratory presented a session titled “Lessons Learned from MARVEL Reactor Fabrication.” The presentation highlighted challenges that arose as they moved from design to manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on reactor part fabrication, Stirling engine implementation, and reactivity control system development.
Chien Chung, Chen-Yi Chen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 2 | November 1990 | Pages 159-166
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34467
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The 100-m W Tsing-Hua Mobile Educational Reactor, originally designed for educational and training purposes, has been converted for in vivo prompt gamma-ray activation medical diagnosis. New experimental parts and equipment have been installed to localize the external neutron beam and reduce the phantom radiation doses to the irradiated organ. The sensitivity to internal toxic and essential elements in vivo is improved by a factor of 4 and the total doses are reduced by a factor of 2 compared to those obtained in preliminary studies using the original configuration.