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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.
KArl H. Puechl
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 2 | February 1962 | Pages 151-156
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26052
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The influence of plutonium as a fuel constituent on burner reactor behavior is examined. Both the SM-1 and the Shippingport seed lattices are investigated. It is found that the decrease in the effective absorption cross section of Pu240 with fuel burnup gives the plutonium the characteristic of a self-compensating fuel, thereby leading to the extension of core life with minimum shim control requirements. The illustrated behavior is similar to that which was previously shown to be possible for converter-type reactors (1).
