Title: High /sup 240/Pu FTR/EMC experiments and analysis: Carbide fuel and UO/sub 2/ blanket subassembly worths
Abstract: Carbide-plutonium fuel and UO/sub 2/ blanket subassembly worth measurements performed at ANL in the EMC/LWR were analyzed. Composition exchange worth calculations were performed for: (a) the replacement of high-/sup 240/Pu fuel composition for low-/sup 240/Pu fuel composition and carbide-plutonium fuel composition, successively, in the center subassembly of the core; (b) the replacement of low-/sup 240/Pu fuel composition for carbide--plutonium fuel composition in one outer driver subassembly; and (c) the replacement of the radial reflector composition with UO/sub 2/ blanket composition in one subassembly of the radial reflector. The composition exchange worth calculations were performed in two-dimensional x,y geometry, using diffusion theory and perturbation theory. Each method produces about the same calculated-to-experimental bias factors.