TWO-REGION EXPERIMENTS IN SLIGHTLY ENRICHED WATER-MODERATED URANIUM AND URANIUM DIOXIDE LATTICES
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4310156
The two-region critical configuration contained a subregion of uranium dioxide fuel, 0.384 in. in diameter, arranged in a hexagonal lattice to give a water-touranium volume ratio of 4.9. This subregion was surrounded by a lattice containing uranium metal rods, 0.387 in. in dinmeter with a water-to-uranium volume ratio of 2.35. Both fuels were enriched to 1.3 wt. % U/sup 235/. Radial neutron flux distributions were calculated by means of a one-dimensional, few- group diffusion equation code for two different subregions. Measurements of the thermal utilization, resonance escape probability, and fast fission factors have been made. (W. D. M.)
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp. Bettis Plant, Pittsburgh
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT(11-1)-GEN-14
- NSA Number:
- NSA-12-014263
- OSTI ID:
- 4310156
- Report Number(s):
- WAPD-TM-120
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CONFIGURATION
CRITICAL ASSEMBLIES
CRITICALITY
EPITHERMAL NEUTRONS
FAST FISSION FACTOR
FAST NEUTRONS
FUEL ELEMENTS
GROUP THEORY
MASS
MEASURED VALUES
MODERATORS
NEUTRON FLUX
NUMERICALS
PHYSICS
PROGRAMMING
REACTOR CORE
RESONANCE ESCAPE PROBABILITY
RODS
THERMAL NEUTRONS
THERMAL UTILIZATION
TRANSPORT THEORY
URANIUM 235
URANIUM DIOXIDE
WATER MODERATOR
ZONES
CRITICAL ASSEMBLIES
CRITICALITY
EPITHERMAL NEUTRONS
FAST FISSION FACTOR
FAST NEUTRONS
FUEL ELEMENTS
GROUP THEORY
MASS
MEASURED VALUES
MODERATORS
NEUTRON FLUX
NUMERICALS
PHYSICS
PROGRAMMING
REACTOR CORE
RESONANCE ESCAPE PROBABILITY
RODS
THERMAL NEUTRONS
THERMAL UTILIZATION
TRANSPORT THEORY
URANIUM 235
URANIUM DIOXIDE
WATER MODERATOR
ZONES