REACTOR CONTROL MEETING HELD IN LOS ANGELES, MARCH 6-8, 1957

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1957

OSTI ID:4327465

Papers are included on the reactor control meeting summary remsrks, a review of methods used in control rod analysis for reactor design at Bettis, formulas for control rod worth in thermal reactors, half-group theories for control rods, variational calculation of control rod absorption area, thin regions in diffusion theory calculations, flux distribution for a finite cylindrical bare homogeneous thermal reactor with a partially insented control rod, dependence of control rod worth on reactor temperature and fuel exposure, multiple control rod calculations, heterogeneous reactor critical conditions using the small source theory, control rod worth studies on seed and blanket reactors, limitations of scram transient calibrations, APPR-l control rod experiments and calculations, APPR control rods --theory and experiment, control rod worths vs. temperature in LAPRE I, effects of rod shape on control worth, lattice experiments on thin black control rods, theory and experiments on rods containing rare earth metals, an empirical determination of fast absorption constants of control rods, the control of fast reactors, the general applicition of burnable poisons, experiments with control rods and voids in a pool type reactor, investigation of absorbing membranes in slab reactors, chemical control experience in boiling reactors, central control rod calculations for SPERT reactors, some control rod studies at the Materials Testing Reactor, a calculation of the effect of voids in large boiling reactors, reactor control work at General Electric APED. (M.H.R.)

• Research Organization: Division of Reactor Development, AEC
• NSA Number: NSA-12-001660
• OSTI ID: 4327465
• Report Number(s): TID-7532(Pt.1)
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

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FAST NEUTRONS
GROUP THEORY
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MEMBRANES
METALS
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