ADSORPTION OF BORON ON REACTOR SLURRY SOLIDS
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4216437
A study was made of the adsorption characteristics of boron in the form of boric acid, on reactor slurry solids consisting of a solid solution of uranium and thorium oxides in an atom ratio of 0.10 uranium to thorium. When oxides fired at 1100 deg C were used, the ratio of boron concentration on the solids to boron concentration in the liquid was very much lower than for 650 deg C fired oxides at the same slurry temperature. If a slurry-type homogeneous reactor fueled with 1100 deg C-fired oxides of thorium-232 and uranium-233 is poisoned with boron prior to startup and the boron in thc supernatant liquor subsequently removed, the neutron loss due to absorption of neutrons by adsorbed boron could quite possibly be small enough to permit breeding to take place during operation (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Oak Ridge, Tenn. Engineering Practice School
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-018654
- OSTI ID:
- 4216437
- Report Number(s):
- MIT-OR-2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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