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Worths of Black Control Rods

Wm. Howard Arnold

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This paper presents a simple method of calculating full insertion worths of individual black control rods in thermal neutron reactors. Both cruciform and cylindrical rods are treated by a perturbation method which allows for the depression in the perturbed flux in the vicinity of the control rods. The method leads to a simple formula for the worth of a central cruciform rod.

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Key concepts: Cruciform, Rod, Control rod, Materials science, Simple (philosophy), Neutron transport, Mechanics, Neutron