Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

Research Article

The Possibilities of Fission Material Reproduction Increase in Thermal Reactor with the Assemblies with a Hard Neutron Spectrum

Table 3

Characteristics of reactor and hard assembly with different heavy metal layers.
Heavy metal layer, cm 𝑘 e ff Number of fissions in 238U in rows, %
PeripheralInterimCentral
1.951.148.022.611.10
2.951.095.41.730.8
3.951.072.610.870.41