Organisation:
The University of Texas at Austin
Installation:
Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory, NETL
Type:
TRIGA Mark II reactor, LEU, 1.1 MW since 1992, up to 1.5 GW in pulsed
mode
Address:
J.J.Pickle Research Campus, Building 159
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Home
page:
http://www.me.utexas.edu
Contact:
Donna J. O’Kelly
Phone
/ fax:
+1 512-232-4174 , fax:
-471-4589
e-mail:
djokelly@mail.utexas.edu
CNS:
"Texas Cold Neutron Source" TCNS
moderator:
mesitylene
pressure:
~ 0 kPa
temperature:
40 K
cooling power needs:
16 W
(12 W ambient)
total
power available:
22 W
moderator volume:
88 ml
heat
removal:
liquid neon thermal siphon
remarks:
new cryo-refrigerator in 2004
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projects:
PGNAA
recent
publication: K. Ünlü, C.
Rios-Martinez, and B. W. Wehring,
"The University of Texas Cold Neutron Source"
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A353, 397 (1994).
Donna
J. O’Kelly "INIE AT UT"
Proc. of IGORR10, NIST 2005
UCN:
This TRIGA reactor could be a perfect candidate for the installation of a UCN
source.