Updates on UO2-BeO Experiment (IER 523) [Slides]
This presentation titled "Updates on UO2-BeO Experiment (IER 523)" covers experiment status, experiment motivation, CED-1 summary, current efforts (CED-2), and includes a concluding summary.
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Jump to search filtersCritical Experiments Targeting the Epithermal/Intermediate Cross Sections of Tantalum
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Design of UO2-BeO Critical Experiment at Sandia [Poster]
The purpose of this proposal is to design a new integral critical experiment to investigate the effects of beryllium oxide and high assay low-enriched uranium fuels. this proposal considers using several existing resources at Sandia: (1) the Critical Experiments (SCX) facility and water tank, (2) spare UO2-BeO fuel for the Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR), and 7uPCX fuel rods from previous benchmark experiments.
Experiments to Measure the Effect of Tantalum on Critical Systems
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IER 441: Experiments to Measure the Effect of Tantalum on Critical Systems (SNL/ORNL) [Slides]
This presentation provides information on the experiments to measure the effect of Tantalum (Ta) on critical systems. This talk presents details on the Sandia Critical Experiments Program with the Seven Percent Critical Experiment (7uPCX) and the Burnup Credit Critical Experiment (BUCCX). The presentation highlights motivations, experiment design, and evaluations and publications.
IER-523: Design of a UO2-BeO Critical Experiment at Sandia [Slides]
This lecture is on the design of a Uranium Dioxide-Beryllium Oxide UO2-BeO Critical Experiment at Sandia. This presentation provides background info on the Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR). Additionally, this presentation shows experimental and alternative designs and concludes with a sensitivity analysis.
Predicting The Transmutationof Fuel Taggants
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
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Design of Critical Experiments Targeting Epithermal Cross Sections of Tantalum
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Design of Critical Experiments Targeting Epithermal Cross Sections of Tantalum
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
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Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Critical Assembly: Boron Worth Experiments
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Developing a Benchmark Evaluation from the Experiments Performed on the Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Zero-Power Critical Assembly (SNTP-CX)
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Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Critical Assembly Boron Worth Experiments
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
The Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (SNTP) project was an attempt to create a more powerful and more efficient rocket engine utilizing nuclear technologies. As part of this project a zero-power critical assembly referred to as SNTPCX was designed and installed at Sandia National Laboratories. The SNTP-CX was a light water moderated particle bed reactor utilizing highly enriched uranium fuel in the form of UC particles. The SNTP-CX performed 142 runs covering numerous experiments from the year 1989 to 1992. The program was canceled in 1994 as the nation’s priorities shifted. Now these experiments are being evaluated for use as criticality safety benchmarks. Nineteen of the 142 reactor runs were dedicated to a series of experiments to calculate the worth of the boron used in the light water moderator. This series of experiments has been selected for further evaluation as a critical benchmark for the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP).
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