Introduction to Nuclear Engineering¶
Lamarsh, J. R., & Baratta, A. J. (2001). Introduction to Nuclear Engineering. Prentice Hall.
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- Cascade
- The pattern was first studied quantitatively in physical and biochemical systems — nuclear chain reactions, where each fission liberates neutrons that induce further fissions, and enzymatic signaling chains, where one activated molecule activates many copies of the next — and it was given a general mathematical home in percolation theory and the science of self-organized criticality, where the question becomes whether a local flip dies out or sweeps the lattice.
This sourceDevelops the nuclear fission chain reaction and the effective neutron multiplication factor k as the criticality eigenvalue separating sub-critical decay (k < 1) from super-critical growth (k > 1) — the canonical first-quantified cascade and the prototype of the cross-domain criticality parameter.
- The pattern was first studied quantitatively in physical and biochemical systems — nuclear chain reactions, where each fission liberates neutrons that induce further fissions, and enzymatic signaling chains, where one activated molecule activates many copies of the next — and it was given a general mathematical home in percolation theory and the science of self-organized criticality, where the question becomes whether a local flip dies out or sweeps the lattice.
- Preparation
- In nuclear physics, subcritical assemblies hold fissile material just below criticality so an inserted source produces fast prompt-critical behavior.
This sourceDefines criticality (k=1), subcritical (k<1) and supercritical assemblies, and the role of a neutron source in initiating a chain reaction.
- In nuclear physics, subcritical assemblies hold fissile material just below criticality so an inserted source produces fast prompt-critical behavior.
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