{"title":"A Liquid Loop as a Radiation Source, with Particular Reference to Radiation Chemistry","authors":"Iu.S. Riabukhin, A.Kh. Breger","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30009-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30009-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A discussion is given of the various applications of powerful radiation fluxes from reactors, particularly in radiation chemistry. An arrangement is described in which a liquid loop is used in conjunction with a hole which brings out the γ-flux into an external apparatus; the activated material forms only one radio-isotope, which decays to stable products. Working formulae and graphs are deduced from which the γ-fluxes can be calculated and from which can be derived the loop parameters which provide the best conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 2","pages":"Pages 109-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30009-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74333433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mass-Transport and Corrosion of Iron-Based Alloys in Liquid Metals","authors":"G.W. Horsley","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30003-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30003-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The application of mass-transport equations to the corrosion of metals by liquid metals is discussed. Calculated corrosion rates are compared with experimentally determined rates. It is concluded that diffusion controlled solution attack, although significant, may not under conditions of interest to reactor engineers be as serious as either inter-granular attack or chemically assisted mass-transport. The mechanism of inter-granular attack, the thermodynamics of an example of chemically assisted mass-transport, the role of oxygen in sodium-stainless steel circuits and methods of reducing mass-transport of iron are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 2","pages":"Pages 84-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30003-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90031791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstracts and Titles of Future Papers","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30015-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30015-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 2","pages":"Pages 141-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30015-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137257806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sources of Gamma Radiation in a Reactor Core","authors":"Matts Roos","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30005-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30005-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a thermal reactor the gamma ray sources of importance for shielding calculations and related aspects are (1) fission, (2) decay of fission products, (3) capture processes in fuel, poison and other materials, (4) inelastic scattering in the fuel and (5) decay of capture products. The energy release and the gamma ray spectra of these sources have been compiled or estimated from the latest information available, and the results are presented in a general way to permit application to any thermal reactor, fuelled with a mixture of <sup>235</sup>U and <sup>238</sup>U. As an example the total spectrum and the spectrum of radiation escaping from a fuel rod in the Swedish R3-reactor are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 2","pages":"Pages 98-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30005-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91719528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Empirical Correlation of the Experimental Data on Homogeneous, Highly Enriched, Uranium and Uranium-Hydrogen Critical Assemblies—II. Changes in Physical Properties","authors":"B.G. Owen, R.A. Gibson","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30004-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30004-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An empirical correlation is presented which enables a constant <em>B</em><sub>0</sub> to be determined in terms of the mass concentration of <sup>235</sup>U, the atomic ratio H/<sup>235</sup>U and the excess multiplication (<em>k</em><sub>∞</sub> – 1). This constant <em>B</em><sub>0</sub> behaves similarly to the material buckling and from it can be determined the physical size of a hydrogeneous uranium critical assembly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 2","pages":"Pages 92-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30004-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91737552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Electronic Digital Computers in a Study of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors","authors":"D.V. Wordsworth","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30063-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30063-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The following paper is in the form of a review of the scope of high speed computer methods as applied to a particular reactor design study in connexion with which the author has been responsible for the mathematical work. For a more general review the reader is referred to, e.g., H<span>owlett</span> (1958). By reviewing a particular design study the author has been able to discuss certain aspects of the work in some degree of detail, but even so it has not been possible in the space available to do more than review the <em>types</em> of problems to which machine methods have been applied in the pursuance of this specific study: the derivation of equations (most of which are, however, now well-known) and the evaluation of results has had to be omitted. It is hoped to publish more detailed papers dealing with more specialized branches of the subject in subsequent issues of Reactor Technology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 25-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30063-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85298463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E.E. Kovalev, V.I. Popov, L.N. Smirenny, Yu.S. Khokhlov
{"title":"A measurement of the gamma-ray intensity produced by extended source","authors":"E.E. Kovalev, V.I. Popov, L.N. Smirenny, Yu.S. Khokhlov","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30068-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30068-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 51-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30068-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82223105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The absorption of 198Au 60Co and 24Na γ-rays in water","authors":"V.N. Sakharov","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30072-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30072-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 55-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30072-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76582931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the measurement of resonance neutron adsorption in heterogeneous U-D2O systems","authors":"B.F. Belkin, P.A. Krupchitsky, Yu.V. Orlov","doi":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30073-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30073-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part B. Reactor Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 57-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0368-3273(15)30073-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79889392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}