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https://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/496| Title: | A note on the response of a circulating fuel reactor to random fluctuation in fuel concentration |
| Authors: | Thompson, JJ |
| Keywords: | Circulating systems Fuels Reactors Uranium Sodium Beryllium |
| Issue Date: | Nov-1956 |
| Publisher: | Australian Atomic Energy Commission |
| Citation: | Thompson, J. J. (1956). A note on the response of a circulating fuel reactor to random fluctuation in fuel concentration. (AAEC/E30). Lucas Heights, NSW: Australian Atomic Energy Commission. |
| Abstract: | A simplified model of a Uranium "Sodium" Beryllium circulating fuel reactor has been analysed to determine the root mean square power and temperature fluctuations due to random variations in the inlet fuel concentration. The results indicate that limits of ± 2% on the fuel concentration should reduce the mean square power excursion, due to this cause, to less than ½%. The calculations based on assumptions only, as regards the specification of the statistical nature of the fuel concentration, but the method can be used to obtain more realistic estimates when experimental evidence becomes available. |
| Gov't Doc #: | 506 |
| URI: | http://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/496 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scientific and Technical Reports |
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