{"title":"Atomnaya energiya contents and abstracts of vol. 20, no. 3","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90165-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90165-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Parts A/B. Reactor Science and Technology","volume":"20 9","pages":"Pages 821-822"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90165-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137281477","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":"Accident and self-regulation studies of pulsed fast reactors","authors":"J. Randles","doi":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90155-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90155-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A previously developed theory of pulsed fast reactor kinetics, inclusive of feedback effects, is reduced to a simple form and a standard method is applied to obtain a numerical description of pulsed excursions. This method is embodied in a <span>fortran</span> computer programme which executes the arithmetic for any desired number of cases and presents all physical variables of interest as a function of the time during a pulse. The main qualitative ideas underlying the theory are illustrated by numerical examples, in particular, the competition for dominance between a prompt positive Doppler and delayed axial thermal fuel expansion effect and the excitation of elastic waves in the fuel slugs are both brought out clearly.</p><p>It is shown that, in accident conditions, a fast pulsed reactor similar to the proposed Euratom system <span>sora</span> possesses a strong net negative feedback which makes the system self-regulating with respect to the fuel temperature, but that such feedback does not appreciably raise the reactivity pulse amplitudes responsible for serious damage. The effect of drifts in the base reactivity is discussed and the reaction of the safety shutdown system is considered. It is concluded that systems similar to the <span>sora</span> reactor have to be designed so that all possible drifts are far below 2 % Δk/sec.</p><p>In connexion with the general question of the choice of the fuel material for a pulsed fast reactor, it is shown that, from the safety viewpoint, the value of the coefficient of thermal expansion of the fuel can be ignored. Thus, all other things being equal, a ceramic is as good as a metallic fuel.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Parts A/B. Reactor Science and Technology","volume":"20 9","pages":"Pages 713-728"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90155-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89098459","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":"Atomnaya energiya contents and abstracts of vol. 20, no. 4","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90166-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90166-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Parts A/B. Reactor Science and Technology","volume":"20 9","pages":"Pages 822-824"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90166-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137281478","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":"A review of pebble bed reactors and the characteristics of packed beds","authors":"K.T. Claxton","doi":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90157-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90157-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper gives a general picture of the pebble bed reactor concept up to the present time. The main advantages and disadvantages are listed, these being chiefly concerned with the rather unique spherical fuel element.</p><p>The principal performance and design data etc. are given for an experimental pebble bed reactor and power plant as conceived by the Oak Ridge design team. Also included are data and a description of the BBC-Krupp reactor (AVR) of the pebble bed type under construction at Julich in West Germany; mention is also made of a possible West German pebble bed power reactor (THTR). An account is given of the Australian work on pebble bed reactors which differs from all others in the choice of support material for the fuel.</p><p>A more detailed account follows of three important aspects of this reactor type—fuel elements, coolant contamination and fuel handling. This is followed by sections on the heat transfer and fluid dynamic characteristics of packed beds, of which the pebble bed reactor is an example.</p><p>In conclusion some of the principal research and development problems associated with this reactor concept are discussed.</p><p>An Appendix summarizes the various pebble bed reactors conceived since the original conceptual design by Farrington Daniels in 1944.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Parts A/B. Reactor Science and Technology","volume":"20 9","pages":"Pages 735-777"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90157-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75878910","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":"Stability of coupled core reactors by the second method of Liapunov","authors":"H.S. Murray, D.G. Schultz, L.E. Weaver","doi":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90156-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90156-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study the Second Method of Liapunov is employed in the non-linear stability analysis of a coupled core reactor system. To insure conservative results, the time delay due to the transport of neutrons between cores, is incorporated directly into the Second Method. This, in effect, avoids the use of series approximations for the time delay which may lead to non-conservative results. Regions of stability are determined as functions of the coupling coefficient, intrinsic reactivity contribution, and delay time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Parts A/B. Reactor Science and Technology","volume":"20 9","pages":"Pages 729-734"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90156-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76195778","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":"Study of the possibility of using thorium in fast power reactors","authors":"A.I. Leipunskii, O.D. Kazachkovskii, S.B. Shikhov, V.M. Murogov","doi":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90161-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90161-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The results of studying the possibilities of using <sup>233</sup>U and thorium in a reactor system with breeding are described. It is shown that the most promising from the point of view of fuel doubling time is the combined use of <sup>233</sup>U-Th and <sup>239</sup>Pu-<sup>238</sup>U in a mixed fast-reactor fuel cycle on condition that the thorium is placed in the shields and <sup>233</sup>U, <sup>239</sup>Pu and <sup>238</sup>U in the cores.</p><p>The burning and regeneration of <sup>238</sup>U and <sup>239</sup>Pu in a mixed fuel cycle is effected in such a way that the ratio of the quantity of each remains constant. The doubling time of a system of fast reactors operating on a mixed fuel cycle mode is substantially less than the doubling time of reactors using only <sup>238</sup>U and thorium. The main raw material in the mixed fuel cycle is thorium.</p><p>A method of obtaining isotopically pure <sup>238</sup>U with a 231U content ∼ 10<sup>−4</sup> per cent is given.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Parts A/B. Reactor Science and Technology","volume":"20 9","pages":"Pages 799-809"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90161-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74110566","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":"Relationship between the separation factor during isotopic exchange and the properties of the exchanging molecules","authors":"A.M. Rozen, A.I. Mikhailichenko","doi":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90160-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0368-3230(66)90160-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An examination is made of the dependence of the equilibrium constant during isotopic exchange in diatomic compounds on the properties of the exchanging atoms and molecules: the force constant, dissociation energy, electronegativity, the structure of the electron shell, the internuclear distance, the masses of the isotopic and the additional atom. Analytical equations describing the influence of these factors on the magnitude of the equilibrium constant are obtained with the aid of semi-empirical relations. Convenient methods of correlation are found which make it possible to predict the character of the variation in the β-factors in a number of similar compounds. Recommendations are given on the selection of systems for isotope separation. An attempt is made to extend some of the conclusions obtained to isotopic exchange in polyatomic compounds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Energy. Parts A/B. Reactor Science and Technology","volume":"20 9","pages":"Pages 785-798"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0368-3230(66)90160-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78208214","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}