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INL reports findings on unusual quantum behavior of plutonium
Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory have discovered that plutonium hexaboride (PuB6) displays a type of unusual quantum property called a topological Kondo insulating state. Materials with this property are neither typical electricity conductors nor regular insulators. Rather, they have exterior surfaces that strongly conduct electricity and interiors that block electricity.
Ping-Hue Huang, Jing-Tong Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 107 | Number 2 | August 1994 | Pages 138-154
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A34984
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The Studsvik Core Management System (CASMO-3/SIMULATE-3) has been validated for application to steady-state reactor physics analyses for pressurized water reactors by demonstrating its ability to obtain accurate and reliable results for various conditions and applications. The analyses validated include global reactivity calculations such as boron letdown, low-powerphysics test predictions, detailed pin by pin power distribution, as well as in-core detector reaction rate calculations. The calculated results have been compared to measured data of 13 cycles for Maanshan Units 1 and 2 as well as measured critical experiments, and the accuracies of the method have been quantified. The validation results indicate that the Taiwan Power Company’s steady-state reactor physics methodology performs to a level of accuracy sufficient for the intended applications, and the accuracies in general are slightly better than the worldwide applications.