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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
J. A. Thie
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 2 | February 1959 | Pages 75-77
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25559
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The Dancoff correction to the surface term of a resonance integral has hitherto required tedious numerical evaluation of a double integral in cylindrical geometry. A recognition of the functional dependence of the correction on moderator mean free path λ allows a great simplification. If 1 - C is the surface correction for two rods of radius, ρ, separated a distance d between centers, then where is a function monotonically increasing with d/ρ, for which a graph is given. A simple formula is also given for C of a hollow rod’s interior.