American National Standard ANSI/ANS-8.12-1987: Criticality control of plutonium-uranium mixtures

Conference · Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:442436

Clayton, E D ^[1]; McLaughlin, T P ^[2]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

The first version of this standard, which only included subcritical limits on homogeneous PuO{sub 2}-UO{sub 2} fuel mixtures, was approved July 17, 1978. The current version was revised to include limits on heterogeneous systems as well. This paper provides additional information on the limits, which cover 3 to 30% PuO{sub 2} in PuO{sub 2}+UO{sub 2} in water.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 442436
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-96-2292; CONF-961103-22; ON: DE96014042
• Resource Relation: Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the European Nuclear Society (ENS), Washington, DC (United States), 10-14 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES
URANIUM DIOXIDE
CRITICALITY
PLUTONIUM DIOXIDE
URANIUM
PLUTONIUM
BINARY MIXTURES
STANDARDS
AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS