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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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Available from INIS in electronic form; ALSO AVAILABLE FROM OSTI AS DE97008622; NTIS; US GOVT. PRINTING OFFICE DEP.
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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)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 30012313
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGORITHMS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CRITICALITY; FISSILE MATERIALS; MULTIPLICATION FACTORS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; URANIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; DISPERSIONS; ELEMENTS; FISSIONABLE MATERIALS; HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; METALS; MIXTURES; REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; SOLUTIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract W-7405-ENG-36
- Funding organization
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-971125--