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Final Design for Thermal/Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) with Absorbers to Provide Validation Benchmarks for Y-12 Electrorefining Facility

Araj, R. I.·Percher, C. M.·Branco-Katcher, M. G.·Aboud, E. E.·Norris, J. D.·Siefman, D. J.·Nelson, A. J.·Heinrichs, D. P.
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One of the main goals of the Thermal/Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) project is to use existing Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP) assets to create critical experiment plutonium and uranium test beds for materials important to criticality safety that have insufficient benchmark evaluations. The plutonium test bed experiments were completed in 2018 and are published in the 2020 edition of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) Handbook. The uranium test bed assemblies were measured in 2020, with benchmark preparation underway.

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Araj, R. I., Percher, C. M., Branco-Katcher, M. G., Aboud, E. E., Norris, J. D., Siefman, D. J., Nelson, A. J., Heinrichs, D. P.. 2022-07-19. Final Design for Thermal/Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) with Absorbers to Provide Validation Benchmarks for Y-12 Electrorefining Facility. https://doi.org/10.2172/1881629

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