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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.
P. T. Hansson, L. R. Foulke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 4 | December 1963 | Pages 528-533
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A18443
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Measurements of the spatial dependence of the zero power transfer function of the reactor NORA have been performed, using a local reactivity perturbation. Spatial effects were observed for frequencies higher than the break frequency β/l, and the wave nature of the flux space-time variation has been recognized. A theoretical interpretation based on two-group diffusion theory is given by solution of the equations by the finite difference method on an analogue computer. The qualitative agreement between theory and experiment is good.