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    This chapter provides an introduction to reactor physics and its application to nuclear power reactors. It discusses how reactor physics techniques have been developed and modified over time to enable the design of safe, reliable and efficient reactor designs. The chapter aims to describe several useful reactor physics methods by presenting approaches to solving common reactor physics problems. It focuses on basic and generalized methods rather than specific reactor designs.

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    Chapter I
    REACTOR PHYSICS AND ITS APPLICA-
    TION TO NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS
    A . Radkowsky

    1.1 INTRODUCTION

    From the inception of the Naval Reactors and Shippingport


    programs major effort has been devoted to reactor physics
    and associated technology. The work in this area has been
    motivated by the need for the design of safe, reliable, and
    efficient reactors. In carrying out these reactor physics
    programs, available techniques have been modified and extend-
    ed, and new techniques have been developed. The latter can
    always be traced back to basic problems associated with the
    accurate predictability of the performance of particular
    reactors. The problems have originated partly from the
    appearance of new reactor concepts, partly from the demands
    for the design of reactors having higher performance and other
    improved characteristics. It is the purpose of this book to
    describe a number of the reactor physics techniques that have
    proved useful. It is hoped that this information will be of
    assistance to the reactor physicist and nuclear engineer in
    exemplifying the application of physics to the practical problems
    of reactor design and analysis. There has been no attempt to
    make a complete treatment of reactor physics nor, on the other
    hand, to write a designmanual. Rather, eachdiscussion treats a
    particular problem in reactor physics, presenting approaches
    to the solution of these problems that have been profitable. As
    pointed out in the Foreword, this volume emphasizes basic
    and generalized approaches, while Vols. TI andIII 1 2 cover
    applications to specific designs.
    When the Naval Reactors program was initiated the only
    cores of significant power output which had been built were of
    the natural uranium graphite type. These cores had character-
    istics lending themselves to relatively simple physics proce -
    dures. Specifically, the cores were macroscopically homo-
    geneous, the spectrum of neutrons causing fission was well
    thermalized, leakage out of the core was low, control rods
    were of circular shape, and core endurance was so short that
    1

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