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Molten salt research is focus of ANS local section presentation
The American Nuclear Society’s Chicago–Great Lakes Local Section hosted a presentation on February 27 on developments at the molten salt research reactor at Abilene Christian University’s Nuclear Energy Experimental Testing (NEXT) Lab.
A recording of the presentation is available on the ANS website.
M. L. Yeater, R. W. Hockenbury, R. R. Fullwood
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 2 | February 1961 | Pages 105-119
doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A15594
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Eta of U233 has been measured in the energy range from 1 to 800 ev by counting fast fission neutrons in ZnS-loaded plastic scintillators; incident neutron energies were measured in a time-of-flight system with a betatron as pulsed source. The data are normalized at one electron volt to data reported at Geneva by the MTR group; the latter results were normalized to an absolute thermal value. Corrections have been made for multiple scattering by a rigorous single velocity analysis and by a Monte Carlo calculation which also accounts for energy degradations.