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Further investigation of spectral temperature feedbacks

Description

This paper serves two purposes: (1) to introduce some new calculations of the temperature coefficients for uranium solutions, and (2) to examine some simplified calculations based on earlier work. Uranium solutions, while never having positive temperature coefficients, show trends in the feedback coefficient as a function of solution concentration that are similar to those seen for plutonium solutions. For both the plutonium and uranium solutions, the feedback coefficient experiences a local minimum near the over/under moderation transition point. The earlier work on the simplified calculations is expanded to include better treatment of cross sections and to include strict numerical integration techniques

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
9 p.
Report number
LA-UR--97-2211

Conference

Title
1997 American Nuclear Society (ANS) winter meeting
Dates
16-20 Nov 1997
Place
Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract W-7405-ENG-36
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
Secondary number(s)
CONF-971125--