THE BETTIS TECHNICAL REVIEW, VOL. 1, NO. 4 REACTOR PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
Discussions included on reactor theory and experimentation are a review of methods used in control rods analysis for reactor design at Bettis Plant, two- dimensional burnup of a cell, resonance capture in heterogeneous systems, half- height Cd slab, synthesis of three-dimensional power distributions for a nonuniformly depleted core, synthesis of three-dimensional power shapes--flux- weighting technique, nuclear design of a fuel assembly for an irradiation proof test, analysis of a heterogeneous critical assembly, the use of the equivalent bare core model for calculating the criticality of slab-type reacthrs and a comparison to experiment, thermal flux depressions in materials containing fuel and B, an inverted reactivity effect, thermal equivalent SIGMA /subn p/ for Cd- Ag control rods, changes in reactivity produced by thermal expansion of extruded polyethylene fuel tape, and construction and operation of a miniature fission counter. Topics on mathematics and computation are a lemma of Stieltjes, a calculation of thermal constunts, reactor criticality and non-negative matrices, a steady-state thermal analysis code for the IBM-704 computer, few-group fitted parameters, a new version of the multigroup Fourier Transform code for calculation of fast group parameters, the WANDA spstial code, and CANDLE -- s one- dimensional few-group lifetime depletion code. (M.H.R.)
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp. Bettis Plant, Pittsburgh
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT-11-1-GEN-14
- NSA Number:
- NSA-12-002526
- OSTI ID:
- 4326314
- Report Number(s):
- WAPD-BT-4
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-58
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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