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Document Type

Research

Abstract

In the thermal reactor a moderator of some sort is used to slow down the neutrons so that fission can take place at thermal speeds. In the case of a reactor using U-235 along with U-238, it is just possible to produce a self-sustaining chain reaction. This is because U-238 is only fissionable by high energy neutrons and the inelastic scattering cross section of U-238 is dominant at high energies. Therefore the fast neutrons produced on fission have a very small chance of producing another fission.

Publication Date

1958

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

65

Issue

1

First Page

348

Last Page

351

Copyright

©1958 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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