Mianyang

Organisation:            China Academy of Engineering Physics
Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry

Installation:                 CMRR under construction

Type:                          pool reactor 20 MW, Øth = 3.4·1014 n/cm²s,

Address:                    P.O. Box 919-211 Mianyang, Sichuan, 621900, P.R. China

Home page:              http://www.caep.ac.cn/ ???

Contact:                     Prof. Zhao Peng Ji

Phone / fax:               +86-816-2493842               fax:      +86-816-2281598

e-mail:                        zhaozhen@my-publie.s.c.cninfo.net
(general e-mail: npc@caep.ac.cn)

Co-workers:              Prof. Dai Jun-long, Eng. Hu Chun-ming (chunming@caep.ac.cn),
Prof. Shen Wen-de (phone: +86-816-2485272)

 

CNS:                          one, operation planned for 2007

moderator:                 H2                   phase:                        liquid (subcooled)

volume:                      ~1 L                temperature:             18 K

pressure:                   250 kPa         heat removal:            thermal siphon (vertical)

material: chamber:      Al alloy        vacuum thimble:            Al alloy

power:                        1500 W          refrigerator:               ??      

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remarks:                    reactor behavior in case of CNS refrigeration failure:

                                    The reactor can continue operation with CNS emergency cooling at room temperature.

 

recent publications:            "COLD NEUTRON SOURCE AT CMRR" by Hu Chunming, & al.
(CMRR), and V. Kouzminov, & al. (PNPI) in
Proc. IGORR9 2003

                                    V. Mityukhlyaev in Proc. UCN-CNS 4th Workshop (PNPI 2003)