High Flux Beam Reactor

HFBR - High Flux Beam Reactor, a research reactor at BNL. 

Azarra, M. A. et al., 1990a, Level-1 for High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) Accident Sequence Delineation, ANS Topical Meeting, The Safety, Status and Future of Non-Commercial Reactors and Irradiation Facilities, Boise, ID, Sept. 31 - Ott. 4, 1990. 

High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Targets which 235... 

The very first nuclear reactor built, where the main objective was to perform condensed matter research, was the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY. The first self-sustaining chain reaction at the HFBR took place on Halloween, 1965. For over 30 years, the HFBR was one of the premier beam reactors in the world, matched only by the ILL reactor in Grenoble, France. These reactor-based sources have been a continuous and reliable source of thermal neutrons for research in a wide range of different scientific fields from physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology to engineering and isotope emichment. The instrumentation that is in place at these sources has seen steady improvement from the days when Nobel laureates, Brockhouse and Shull, performed their pioneering work at these facilities. 

For the reactor route, the saturation yield of Cu from the Zn(n,p) reaction at BOB is 4.14 0.37 GBq mg (112 10 pCi mg ) of Zn at position no. 5 in the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) hydraulic tube (reactor midplane). Production data and fast neutron fluxes available in irradiation facilities in HFIR and the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR, this reactor was permanently shut down in 1999) are summarized in Table 38.8. 

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