Physical Characteristics of the IRT-2000 Swimming-Pool Research Reactor with Loop Channels (Fizichnyya Kharaktarystyki Dasledchaga Reaktara Baseinavaga Typu IRT-2000 Z Petlyavym Kanalam)
Abstract
The IRT-2000 reactor installed in the Institute of Heat and Mass Exchange of the Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR was put in operation in May 1962. Water-cooled water-moderated reactors of the IRT type are simple in design, highly reliable, and safe, while providing great possibilities for experimental work in radiation chemistry, nuclear physics, and biology. Since the IRT-2000 reactor is a prototype, its design did not provide for loop construction. The experimental capabilities of the IRT reactor are very much expanded when a loop channel is installed in the core. The physical characteristics of an IRT reactor with loop channels were, therefore, investigated. Critical tests and physical-neutron computations revealed that it is possible to install a loop channel containing about 3 kg of steel in the IRT reactor. The results of the work done make it possible to select the optimum type of material for use in surrounding the loop channel to provide for maximum run of the reactor with the loop channel in place, or to obtain maximum thermal neutron flux.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 09, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0674484
Entities
People
- A. I. Yarashevich
- A. K. Krasin
- I. A. Savushkin
- R. I. Stralkow
- V. A. Navumaw