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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.
Noel Corngold, Paul Michael, Warren Wollman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 1 | January 1963 | Pages 13-19
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26259
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We examine herein the decay constants,λk which appear in the modal expansion of the neutron density in a study of the time-dependent thermalization of neutrons. A study of the proton gas moderator indicates the existence of an infinite number of discrete λk in the range . The upper limit is a limit point for the eigenvalue sequence. Consideration of more general models indicates the existence of a discrete spectrum in the range 0 min and max and a continuous spectrum in .
