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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.
Saadia Amiel, Jacob Gilat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 1 | January 1964 | Pages 105-109
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18145
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The reaction O17(n, p) and the previously unreported reaction O18(n, d)were found to be responsible for the production of the 4.14-second delayed-neutron precursor, nitrogen-17, in water irradiated in a reactor. The effective cross sections of these reactions with fission-spectrum neutrons were measured by counting the delayed neutron emission of irradiated water samples enriched with oxygen-17 and -18. The values obtained are 7.4 ± 0.6 and 0.086 ± 0.008 µb respectively.
