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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
Werner Fiala, Carlos V. Wheeler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 215-220
Technical Paper and Note | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30929
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An instrument proposed as a total-reflecting low-energy neutron spectrometer was designed, constructed, and tested at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center. The tests consisted of measurements of the spectra of three slightly different core conditions at a radial beam hole of the swimming pool reactor of the PRNC. The data obtained indicate that the instrument is very sensitive and surprisingly able to detect changes in the neutron spectra due to small changes in the reactor core configuration.