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Candidates for leadership provide statements: ANS Board of Directors
With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
M. A. Gaafer, L. Mango, + F. V. Orestano,†, F. Pistella
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 2 | October 1975 | Pages 187-206
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24286
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Methods have been formulated to treat the rod cluster control for present-generation presurized water reactors within the computational codes available at Comitato Nazionale per l’Energia Nucleare (CNEN) for light water reactors. The reliability of these procedures has been verified by comparing the calculated results with the most significant experimental data available from measurements performed by the Centre d’Étude de l’Énergie Nucléaire-Studiecentrum Voor Kernenergie (Belgian Plutonium Recycling Program), Babcock & Wilcox (Lumped Burnable Poison Program), Westinghouse, and CNEN (Italian Nuclear Ship Propulsion Program). Reactivity and power distributions have been evaluated for a wide set of experimental configurations including several types of absorbing rods (e.g., B4C, Pyrex, and Ag-In-Cd alloy) with different radii in different lattices made of various fuel materials (e.g., UO2, PuO2, and UO2/PuO2).
