Minimum Critical Mass in Variable Density and Epithermal Reactors

1 June 1961

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Nuclear Science and Engineering

Vol. 10 (2) , 159-162
https://doi.org/10.13182/nse61-a25952

Abstract

For thermal reactors and those described by two neutron energy groups it is shown that the adjoint fluxes of multigroup diffusion theory can be expressed as linear combinations of the neutron fluxes even when the moderator density is a function of position. For the case of thermal reactors it is shown that minimum critical mass and constant thermal flux in the core are equivalent.

Keywords

THERMAL REACTORS
EPITHERMAL
FUNCTION
MULTIGROUP
CRITICAL MASS
MINIMUM CRITICAL

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Current Status of Nuclear Reactor Theory
American Journal of Physics, 1952