Application to Safety Storage Calculation of a Chemical-processing Plant

4 Application to Safety Storage Calculation of a Chemical-processing Plant 

In the present section, we carry out a sample calculation for the safety storage requirements in a chemical-processing plant. The calculation is based on the infinite niedium pne-veloci model- 

Our consideration of nuclear reactors, thus far, has included only the principal features of the reactor proper. The reactor is, of course, only one element of an extensive engineering complex. The operation and the maintenance of this device reciuire many additional component systems. 

We compute the multiplication constant for this system by assuming that it is a homogenized infinite medium. Thus, we require the macroscopic cross sections of a system consisting of enriched slugs, steel, and water. The volume fractions of these constituents may be computed from the cross-sectional area of the crate  

Cross-sectional area of crate occupied by 506 slugs = 410 cm Cross-sectional area of crate occupied by steel = 56.4 cm Cross-sectional area of crate occupied by water = 55.7 cm  

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