Technical activities report for February 1953: Physics Unit, Applied Research Sub-Section

Technical Report · Tue Mar 10 04:00:00 EST 1953

OSTI ID:10185156

Faulkner, J E; Davenport, D E; Duvall, G E

This report covers work done by the experiment, exponential pile and theoretical physics groups. Subjects discussed are as follows: xenon generator; reactivity measurement on shielded plutonium slug; lattice testing reactor; ratio of Pu{sup 239} to U{sup 235} fission cross-sections; beta spectrometer; critical mass problems; induced radioactivity in process tubes and slug jackets made of zirconium; graphite diffusion length check; small slug program; 6-3/16 lattice exponential pile; diffusion length in wet lattice; thermal utilization; 7-1/2 inch lattice exponential pile measurements; fast flux depression; tables of the integrals; effects of steel supports on the critical size of bare cylinders; thermal blackness; cadmium-covered slug for determining distribution of resonance neutrons; resonance escape probability; and neutron diffusion and random walk.

• Research Organization: General Electric Co., Richland, WA (United States). Hanford Atomic Products Operation
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 10185156
• Report Number(s): HW--27354; ON: DE95000481
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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