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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
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When your test capsule is the test: ORNL’s 3D-printed rabbit
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has, for the first time, designed, printed, and irradiated a specimen capsule—or rabbit capsule—for use in its High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), the Department of Energy announced on January 15.
James L. Kelly, A. B. Reynolds, Michael E. McGown
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 2 | October 1984 | Pages 184-191
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A28402
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Fission product fractional release rates, K, used in the Albrecht-Wild model and measured at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Oak Ridge National Laboratory can be fitted well by a single straight line for each fission product over the entire temperature range of the data when ln K is plotted as a function of 1/T. Past applications of the Albrecht-Wild model have used plots of ln K versus T, which required three fits over the temperature range. Thus it is suggested that fractional release rates be represented by the Arrhenius form, K=K0exp(−Q/RT).
