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CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS WITH A SEED AND BLANKET SLAB GEOMETRY ASSEMBLY

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4239835

A series of critical experiments was performed on slab geometry critical assemblies to study the basic behavior of seed-blanket type cores. These experiments included water-worth measurements, inference of excess and shutdown reactivities, temperature coefficients, three-dimensional activations, control rod worths, and the effect of burnable poison (boron). In most cases, theoretical calculatiors are compared to the experimental results, and the agreement between experiment and theory, in general, is quite good. (auth)

Research Organization:
Westinghouse Electric Corp. Bettis Plant, Pittsburgh
DOE Contract Number:
AT(11-1)-GEN-14
NSA Number:
NSA-13-018252
OSTI ID:
4239835
Report Number(s):
WAPD-TM-130
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English