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The design, construction, and testing of a reactimeter

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dc.contributor.authorJones, Kim Allenen
dc.contributor.departmentNuclear Science and Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-13T20:44:13Zen
dc.date.available2015-11-13T20:44:13Zen
dc.date.issued1977en
dc.description.abstractA reactimeter has been developed to measure the neutron reactivity of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University nuclear research reactor. The reactimeter will be employed in monitoring reactivity changes of samples entering and leaving the reactor. The reactimeter is comprised of a compensated ion chamber that measures the neutron flux of the reactor and a microcomputer that performs the reactivity calculations. The calculations are based on the six group, point reactor kinetics equations. To simplify the algorithm programming into the microcomputer, the prompt jump approximation is used. The entire reactimeter program can be stored in 2 K of memory, but it requires a separate program of elementary mathematical subroutines. This second program performs all the mathematical operations and requires 1.25 K of memory.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentviii, 296 leavesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/64041en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 6494669en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1977.J656en
dc.subject.lcshReactimeteren
dc.subject.lcshNuclear reactionsen
dc.titleThe design, construction, and testing of a reactimeteren
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineNuclear Science and Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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