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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.
Louis M. Shotkin, Frederick H. Abernathy
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 2 | February 1963 | Pages 197-212
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26419
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The stability of the thermal flux in a reflected slab reactor due to xenon and temperature reactivity feedback is investigated using perturbation theory. A reactor with spatially constant fuel, equilibrium flux, and materials in the core is examined under various reactivity feedback situations. Stability criteria are given along with associated oscillation periods for the condition of neutrally stable equilibrium, i.e., continuous oscillation of the perturbed flux. The conditions for interaction of the xenon and temperature reactivity feedback are shown for both long and short temperature delays; the effect of delayed neutrons being considered when appropriate. A cosine fuel distribution is found to be necessary to give spatially constant equilibrium flux and this cosine fuel model is shown to predict slightly more stable conditions than the flat fuel model. Coupling of the first two (even or odd) excited modes is shown to occur (for a constant power density model) in large, high flux reactors, leading to more unstable conditions than with no coupling.