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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.
R. Perez-Belles, J. D. Kington, G. Desaussure
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 4 | April 1962 | Pages 505-512
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26098
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The value of the effective delayed neutron fraction has been measured for a compact loading of the BSR-I by the boron-substitution technique. The value obtained was 0.0080 ± 0.0002. By adopting the value of the true delayed neutron fraction. β = 0.0064 ± 0.0002, measured by Keepin et al., the ratio of the effective delayed-neutron fraction to the true delayed-neutron fraction is found to be 1.25 ± 0.05. When this quantity was computed by a three-group PDQ-code calculation, the result was 1.25, an agreement which suggests the validity of the computational method.
