Beryllium Reflector Experiment Effects on High Flux Isotope Reactor Performance Metrics

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Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). This research was performed on HFIR, a US Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated by ORNL under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. The authors acknowledge Z. Karriem, A. Nelson, and J. Geringer for their support of this work. The authors thank J. Batson, T. Greene, E. Asano, and K. Burg for their reviews of this paper.