Oscillations in the Power Distribution within a Reactor
- 1 July 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Vol. 2 (4) , 469-480
- https://doi.org/10.13182/nse57-a25411
Abstract
In a reactor of sufficient size and operating at sufficiently high power density, an oscillation in the spatial distribution of power may arise because of interplay between the effect of Xe135 on flux distribution and the fact that its appearance after fission is delayed by the decay time of I135. By use of a very simple reactor model the conditions required to establish such an instability are studied; amplitude and frequency characteristics of the oscillation are also investigated.Keywords
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