Monday, January 28, 2013

Fissile material VS Fertile material - Reactor Design

fissile material VS fertile material

There are fissonable materials.

  1. fissile material : fission
  2. fertile material : capture a neutron and decay(convert) to fissile material

In addition,
even number of atomic mass: stable(since the atoms are pair )
odd number of atomic mass: unstable(since the there is one odd atom is ready to therefore it occurs fission)

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Doubling time - exponential - Reactor Physics





What's up guys?
Today, we are going to cover exponential doubling time.
For those who haven't watched a video of the linear doubling time, please watch it before this video.