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Penn State and Westinghouse make eVinci microreactor plan official
Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Company are working together to site a new research reactor on Penn State’s University Park, Pa., campus: Westinghouse’s eVinci, a HALEU TRISO-fueled sodium heat-pipe reactor. Penn State has announced that it submitted a letter of intent to host and operate an eVinci reactor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on February 28 and plans to engage with the NRC on specific siting decisions. Penn State already boasts the Breazeale reactor, which began operating in 1955 as the first licensed research reactor at a university in the United States. At 70, the Breazeale reactor is still in operation.
O. D. Simpson, M. S. Moore, F. B. Simpson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 187-192
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29089
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutron transmission measurements of U233 and U235 have been obtained from 0.02 to 0.08 ev. The 2200 m/sec total neutron cross section values have been calculated from a linear least-squares fit to the data in this region and found to be 587 ± 6 and 690 ±10 barns, respectively. The data were taken with the Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) fast chopper with an instrument resolution of 2 µsec/m. Experimental techniques, involving the use of a 1024-channel time-of-flight analyzer for measuring total cross sections at low energies, are described.
