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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., G. G. Smith, D. Klein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 4 | December 1962 | Pages 358-365
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26242
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The effective U238 resonance neutron capture integrals of uranium metal and UO2 rods of a variety of diameters have been measured by an activation technique. Small corrections have been applied to compensate for departure of the flux spectrum from a 1/E shape. The results are compared with Hellstrand's measurements and with calculations by Nordheim. There is excellent agreement for UO2. For U metal, agreement is not as good, but the difference is judged to be within the over-all uncertainty.
