Thermal non-leakage probability from diffusion area and geometric buckling

Thermal non-leakage probability can be found from the diffusion area of thermal neutrons and geometric buckling.

Links:

  1. NuclearPower.

  2. Wikipedia, last row in table.

thermal_diffusion_area

Thermal neutron_diffusion_area.

Symbol:

L_th^2

Latex:

\(L_\text{th}^2\)

Dimension:

area

geometric_buckling

geometric_buckling.

Symbol:

B_g^2

Latex:

\(B_\text{g}^2\)

Dimension:

1/area

thermal_non_leakage_probability

thermal_non_leakage_probability.

Symbol:

P_TNL

Latex:

\(P_\text{TNL}\)

Dimension:

dimensionless

law

P_TNL = 1 / (1 + L_th^2 * B_g^2)

Latex:
\[P_\text{TNL} = \frac{1}{1 + L_\text{th}^2 B_\text{g}^2}\]