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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.
Raymond L. Murray, William T. Price, Samuel H. Birken
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 3 | September 1960 | Pages 254-259
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25807
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Criticality conditions suitable for hand calculations are derived for reactor control rod configurations of practical interest. Two-group diffusion theory is applied to (a) arrays of several control rods of different materials, sizes, shapes, radial, and angular location; (b) reflected cores containing a symmetric ring of similar rods, with or without an axial rod. The reduction to elementary cases is demonstrated.