Estimating the Critical Mass of a Fissionable Isotope

• B. Cameron Reed ^[1]
  1. [1] Alma College

     Alma College

     City of Alma, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 73, Nº 2 (February), 1996, págs. 162-164
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A method utilizing only basic nuclear physics and one-dimensional integration is developed for estimating the critical mass of a fissionable isotope. Application to U-235 and Pu-239 gives results in excellent agreement with published values.