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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.
Frank Titus
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1958 | Pages 609-619
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25495
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Measurements have been made of the distribution of exposure dose in the neighborhood of a plane boundary separating two media of very different density, steel-wool and steel. A point-isotropic Co60 source was located in the vicinity of the boundary. Control measurements were performed in a homogeneous medium of steel-wool. In this way the effect on gamma-ray propagation of an abrupt density change was established. The main result was a progressive decrease of exposure dose near the density-interface compared with the homogeneous medium situation, as the source-detector distance was increased. There is good agreement between the experimental results and corresponding Monte Carlo calculations.