Consider gas of neutrons in nuclear reactor

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Consider a gas of neutrons in a nuclear reactor. The neutron density is 10^8 neutrons/cm^3 in an operating reactor which has a core temperature of 535K. Are the neutrons in the reactor core a classical gas or a quantum mechanical gas and how can you tell?

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