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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations Volume 2011, Article ID 897165, 4 pages doi:10.1155/2011/897165 Research Article The Possibilities of Fission Material Reproduction Increase in Thermal Reactor with the Assemblies with a Hard Neutron Spectrum Vladimir M. Kotov, Anna S. Sergeeva, Ruslan A. Irkimbekov, and Vladislav I. Suprunov Institute of Atomic Energy, NNC RK, 071100 Kurchatov, Kazakhstan Correspondence should be addressed to Vladimir M. Kotov, kotovvm@nnc.kz Received 20 May 2011; Revised 26 August 2011; Accepted 22 September 2011 Academic Editor: Keith E. Holbert Copyright © 2011 Vladimir M. Kotov et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper addresses the problem of fission material reproduction increase in thermal reactors. Reproduction increase is achieved while decreasing the fission material content in the fuel. In that case, a decrease of neutron loss in construction materials and a neutron leakage decrease are required for obtaining reactor criticality. Effectiveness of the reactor functioning can be increased by the use of additional neutron sources, for example, n-2n reaction in beryllium framing. The possibility of additional neutron source development with the use of fast neutrons with an energy distribution close to the fission spectrum in the major part of thermal reactor core is researched in this paper. 1. Introduction other means. Different core designs are studied. It shows positive results and high potential