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Small-size fast critical assemblies with highly enriched fuel at the AKSAMIT facility are described in detail. Computational models of the critical assemblies at room temperature are given. The calculation results for the critical parameters are compared with the experimental data. A good agreement between the calculations and the experimental data is shown. The physical models developed for the critical assemblies, as well as the experimental results, can be applied to verify various codes intended for calculation of the neutronic characteristics of small-size fast nuclear reactors. For these experiments, the results computed using the codes of the MCU family show a high quality of the neutron data and of the physical models used.
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Original Russian Text © E.S. Glushkov, A.E. Glushkov, E.A. Gomin, S.B. Daneliya, A.A. Zimin, M.A. Kalugin, A.V. Kapitonova, G.V. Kompaniets, N.P. Moroz, V.I. Nosov, R.P. Petrushenko, O.N. Smirnov, 2012, published in VANT. Fizika yadernykh reaktorov, 2012, No. 2, pp. 3–18.
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Glushkov, E.S., Glushkov, A.E., Gomin, E.A. et al. Experiments on small-size fast critical fuel assemblies at the AKSAMIT facility and their use for development of computational models. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 76, 1607–1620 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778813130036
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