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Comparison of calculated quantities with measured quantities for the LEU-fueled Ford Nuclear Reactor
Description
The Ford Nuclear Reactor (FNR) went critical on December 8, 1981 with 23 LEU fuel elements. Five of these 23 elements were fabricated by CERCA and the others by NUKEM. Since that time a substantial data base of experimental results for LEU cores has been accumulated by the University of Michigan FNR staff. This paper compares some of the experimental data with analytical calculations based, for the most part, on three-dimensional diffusion theory. The critical configuration, control rod worths, axial rhodium reaction rate profiles and thermal flux distributions have been calculated and compared with measurements
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 30 p.
- Report number
- CONF-821155--4
Conference
- Title
- International meeting on research and test reactor core conversions from HEU to LEU fuels.
- Dates
- 8 - 10 Nov 1982.
- Place
- Argonne, IL (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 14769103
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTROL ROD WORTHS; CRITICALITY; FNR REACTOR; FUEL ELEMENTS; NEUTRON FLUX; REACTION KINETICS; REACTOR CORES; REACTOR KINETICS
- Descriptors DEC
- ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; IRRADIATION REACTORS; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION REACTORS; KINETICS; POOL TYPE REACTORS; RADIATION FLUX; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; TEST REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; TRAINING REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS