Physics Analysis of the JUGGERNAUT Reactor

Technical Report · Sun Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1962

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4782203· OSTI ID:4782203

Moon, D. P. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The JUGGERNAUT is an intermediate-power research reactor designed and constructed as a supporting facility for chemistry and physics research. The design of this reactor is similar to that of the ARGONAUT, and those methods of evaluating the nuclear characteristics of the ARGONAUT which gave good agreement with experimental data were considered applicable to the analysis of the JUGGERNAUT. The analyses for both the JUGGERNAUT and the ARGONAUT were based on a modified two-group theory. The criticality calculations were carried out with the 1BM704 and the two-dimensional PDQ code. Reactivity effects were calculated by hand by means of perturbation techniques, with the real and adjoint fluxes obtained from PDQ calculations.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• NSA Number: NSA-16-032602
• OSTI ID: 4782203
• Report Number(s): ANL-6587
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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