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The basic characteristics of nonstationary neutron transport in a subcritical component of a coupled pulsed reactor system are studied. The investigations are performed on the reactor-laser setup of stand B. The existence of a phenomenon which is unusual for nuclear reactors – a spherical wave of fission – in the subcritical assembly is confirmed experimentally. The basic characteristics of this “wave” are determined experimentally and confirmed computationally for a three-core pulsed reactor–laser system.
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Berezhnoi, K.V., D'yachenko, P.P., Elovskii, O.A. et al. Spatiotemporal Energy Distribution in a Pulsed Coupled Reactor System. Atomic Energy 93, 912–916 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022463922732
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