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EXPERIMENTS WITH A HIGH-SPEED FUEL DENSITY SEED-BLANKET CRITICAL ASSEMBLY

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4122959

The design of long-lifetime seed-blanket cores creates a need for calculational-experimental physics comparisons on critical assemblies having a high seed-fuel density. Since experimental data are not available at high fuel densities, an experimental program is initiated to obtain parameters in a core having fuel densities varying from 282 to 449 g U-235/liter in the seed-fuel region. The comparison of experimental and calculational results show that a nuclear-design-type calculation predicts with comparable accuracy criticality, seed power peaking factors, and boron capture fractions at the given seed fuel densities. (auth)

Research Organization:
Westinghouse Electric Corp. Bettis Atomic Power LAb., Pittsburgh
DOE Contract Number:
AT(11-1)-GEN-14
NSA Number:
NSA-18-004743
OSTI ID:
4122959
Report Number(s):
WAPD-T-1623; CONF-187-22
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English