SOME STUDIES OF WATER, STYROFOAM AND PLEXIGLAS REFLECTORS
The reflecting properties of water, Styrofoam, and plexiglas were stadied in critical experiments with 6-in.-thick slabs of aqueous solutions of U0/ sub 2/F/sub 2/ enriched to 93% in U/sub 235/ It was found that Styrofoam is significantly less effective than water as a neutron refiector, since the height of a slab with an effectively infinite Styrofoam reflector (except on top) was reduced by only about 20% from that of the unreflected slab, while the height of a slab with an effectively irfinite water reflector was reduced by more than a fuctor of 3. The effects of placing water, Styrofoam, and plexiglas between two- slab assemblies, both unreflected and waterreflected, were also investigated. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-003095
- OSTI ID:
- 4289934
- Report Number(s):
- CF-58-9-39
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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