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Penn State and Westinghouse make eVinci microreactor plan official
Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Company are working together to site a new research reactor on Penn State’s University Park, Pa., campus: Westinghouse’s eVinci, a HALEU TRISO-fueled sodium heat-pipe reactor. Penn State has announced that it submitted a letter of intent to host and operate an eVinci reactor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on February 28 and plans to engage with the NRC on specific siting decisions. Penn State already boasts the Breazeale reactor, which began operating in 1955 as the first licensed research reactor at a university in the United States. At 70, the Breazeale reactor is still in operation.
J. G. BAYLY, R. M. PEARCE
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 3 | May 1957 | Pages 352-362
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25400
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An electrical analog is described for the study of reactors whose nuclear properties vary with radius. Several neutron velocity groups can be used. The reactor is divided in uniform homogeneous regions which may be either slabs, spherical shells, or cylindrical shells. The group parameters may be independently varied in these regions and the analog immediately obtains the reactivity. The analog also yields the space distribution of the various neutron groups after being adjusted to the critical condition. A commercial, general purpose analog computer has been adapted to this problem. The analog can also solve the adjoint diffusion equations.