Open AccessTWO-REGION REACTIVITY WORTH METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF FUEL-POISON SUBASSEMBLIES
Author(s) -
JOHN CASE
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4197133
Subject(s) - reactivity (psychology) , nuclear engineering , environmental science , forensic engineering , materials science , engineering , medicine , pathology , alternative medicine
In the early production of reactor cores, a final nondestructive method to insure proper loading of fuel-poison subassemblies was desired. Subsequent analytical studies are presented which indicate that two-region reactivity measurements, as obtained from a suitable critical facility, should determine subassembly loading to within 2g U and 0.03g B. Increased confidence in fuel component assembly methods resulted in a decision to abandon use of this method and, as a result, it has never been put into practice at the Bettis Laboratory. (auth
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