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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
D. G. Andrews, M. Dixmier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 3 | June 1969 | Pages 259-267
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A18722
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The temperature distribution in a cylindrical fuel rod has been calculated on the assumption that the flux distribution is expressible in the form of a series of Bessel functions, whether or not it actually obeys the simple diffusion equation. Variable thermal conductivity has been taken into account and a generalization of the classical solution has been obtained. A simplified design formula for a solid rod has been derived.
