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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.
J. Hardy, Jr., D. Klein, G. G. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 3 | March 1961 | Pages 341-345
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25885
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The resonance fission integrals of U235, Pu239, and Pu241 have been measured relative to the gold resonance capture integral by the cadmium ratio method. The cadmium ratios were measured in a reactor at a position where the epicadmium flux spectrum was closely 1/E except for a peak above 25 kev. A small spectrum correction was made for this flux peak to infer the fission integral over a pure 1/E spectrum using a calculated epicadmium flux spectrum. The resonance integrals obtained were, with a 0.5-ev cutoff energy, 274 ± 11b, 327 ± 22b, and 557 ± 33b for U235, Pu239, and Pu241, respectively.