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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
José Porto
Nuclear Technology | Volume 34 | Number 2 | July 1977 | Pages 172-178
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A39696
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Time-dependent reactivities of many kinds are useful for the analysis of neutron kinetics, such as the study of reactor parameters, neutron wave propagation, or any other specific evolution of the reactor in the time. This is done by imposing the time function directly on a cadmium rod and measuring the neutron flux. Two experiments were performed: In the first one, the reactivity function required for a sinusoidal output was generated with all its parameters in agreement with the previous calculation. In the second experiment, a parameter was slightly altered. Both cases were analyzed, and their results agreed with calculations based on the point reactor model.