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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
D. B. MacMillan, M. L. Storm
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 4 | August 1963 | Pages 369-380
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26547
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The applicability of the zero-neutron-lifetime approximation in describing the effects of neutron-level fluctuations is investigated for reactivities near and above prompt critical. It is concluded that meaningful statistical information can be obtained by the zero-lifetime model above prompt critical, and an approximate procedure for joining this model to a deterministic finite-lifetime model is suggested. Illustrative examples, comparing numerical results obtained by this approximation with more accurate finite-lifetime statistical calculations, are presented. In addition, application is made to Los Alamos and Livermore superprompt-critical burst experiments which fall outside of the practical computing range of the finite-lifetime model described in Part II. It is found that the agreement of calculation and experiment is as good as was found previously for a set of subprompt-critical burst experiments.