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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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MIT’s nuclear professional courses benefit United States—and now Australia too
Some 30 nuclear engineering departments at universities across the United States graduate more than 900 students every year. These young men and women are the present and future of the domestic nuclear industry as it seeks to develop and deploy advanced nuclear energy technologies, grow its footprint on the power grid, and penetrate new markets while continuing to run the existing fleet of reactors reliably and economically.
Jack M. Ravets, John R. Lamarsh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 6 | June 1960 | Pages 496-501
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25756
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The production of flat thermal flux by the nonuniform distribution of the moderator is discussed within the framework of two group theory for two region reactors. Equations determining the moderator distribution are derived and a numerical solution is presented for a typical reactor system. The moderator density is found to increase with increasing distance from the center of the core. All combinations of core and reflector materials cannot be used in these flat flux systems, and the restrictions which determine allowability are discussed. In the special case of slab reactors in which the core and reflector are the same materials these systems have minimum critical mass.