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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.
Robert W. Albrecht
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 2 | October 1962 | Pages 153-158
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A28114
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A mathematical model is developed for the ratio of the variance to the mean number of neutrons detected in a point, unloaded reactor as a function of counting time. The model includes the effect of delayed neutrons. An experiment is performed which measures this statistic for counting times between one millisecond and ten seconds. The predictions of the model and the results of the experiment are compared. It is shown that a reduced two-delay group model predicts the experimental results fairly well.
