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The heterogeneous theory of cylindrical neutron multiplying structures

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

Summary

In this work the critical equation together with the stationary thermal neutron distribution is stated for a cylindrical neutron-multiplying structure. The fissionable material is assumed to be lumped into several blocks; allowance is made for an arbitrary distribution of them in the system. The source-sink technique is used throughout, while the neutron migration is dealt with by age-diffusion or multigroup approximations. Leakage and non-leakage probabilities as a function of the neutron birth position are carefully computed. A method is worked out for the simultaneous evaluation of the criticality, together with the maxima and minima of any function of the critical mass itself.

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Questo lavoro contiene la soluzione teorica dei problemi di criticità e di distribuzione stazionaria del flusso neutronico termico per una struttura moltiplicante eterogenea di forma cilindrica, nella quale i blocchi di materiale fissile siano distribuiti in modo arbitrario. L’equazione critica è ricavata col metodo deipozzi-sorgente, trattando la termalizzazione dei neutroni con la teoria dell’età oppure con la diffusione a più gruppi. Vengono calcolate le probabilità di fuga e di assorbimento per neutroni nati in qualsiasi punto della struttura. È descritto un metodo per la ricercasimultanea della criticità e dei massimi e minimi di qualsiasi funzione (ad esempio, peso o costo totali) della massa critica.

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Corno, S.E. The heterogeneous theory of cylindrical neutron multiplying structures. Nuovo Cim 17, 580–598 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860413

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