The operating characteristics and parameters of the experimental IRT MIFI facilities at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MIFI) for a core with IRT-3M fuel assemblies with high- and low-enrichment uranium fuel are examined. The change of the parameters of horizontal neutron beams for neutron therapy and fuel consumption on conversion to low-enrichment fuel is estimated.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 112, No. 5, pp. 298–302, May, 2012.
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Alferov, V.P., Kryuchkov, E.F., Portnov, A.A. et al. Analysis of the technical feasibility of converting the IRT MIFI reactor to low-enrichment fuel. At Energy 112, 368–374 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-012-9571-0
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