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Wyoming OKs construction of TerraPower’s Natrium plant
Progress continues for TerraPower’s Natrium plant, with the latest win coming in the form of a state permit for construction of nonnuclear portions of the advanced reactor.
K. Swaminathan, S. P. Tewari, R. M. Bansal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 1 | October 1978 | Pages 137-140
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27281
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Thermal-neutron steady-state spectra, in the presence of a 1/E epithermal source of neutrons, calculated in pure and poisoned light water assemblies, using the recent neutron scattering kernel of water suggested by Bansal et al., are found to agree with the recent experimental results of Abbate et al. The effect of different source terms on the steady-state spectra has also been studied.