Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 11 / Number 1 / September 1961 / Pages 39-42
Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25981
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The influence of a non-uniform temperature distribution on the absorption of neutrons in a purely absorbing resonance of an isolated lump is studied. It is shown that in practical situations the absorption in the lump depends only on its average temperature and not on whether its temperature distribution is uniform or not.