MONITORING OF LOCAL PERTURBATIONS OF THE MULTIPLICATION FACTOR ON OVERLOADS IN THE CORE OF A SHUT-DOWN REACTOR
V. Yu. Samonin and V. V. Shidlovskii UDC 621.039.538 A method of revealing the fact of existence (absence) of a local region in the reactor core with an anomalous value of the multiplication factor, detection of this region, and on-line monitoring of its "movement" throughout the volume of the core of a shut-down reactor during the entire period of overloading is proposed. Production Association "Mayak," Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia; email: roma@telecom.ozersk.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 148-152, March-April, 2001. O riginal article submitted May 25, 2000. JEPTER74920200118 JEPTER7492018