FFTF absorber-pin performance verification test
The FFTF (Fast Flux Test Facility) Absorber Pin Performance Verification Test - (HA006) is an irradiation test of neutron absorber pins with integral temperature and pressure monitoring instrumentation. The pins, containing boron carbide, are representative of the FFTF Row 3 Safety, Row 5 Control and Row 7 Fixed Shim Absorber Assemblies. In the 300 full power days (FPD) this test will reside in its 2610 Position in the reactor, it will generate test data that will be used to infer the effects of irradiation on the absorber assemblies it simulates. Design and fabrication of the test vehicle began in 1976 and the forty-foot test assembly was loaded in the FFTF on February 10, 1981. The test provided data in March 1981 during a series of natural circulation tests, and again in November 1981 during the eight-day full power run establishing base-line data.
- Research Organization:
- Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76FF02170
- OSTI ID:
- 5275664
- Report Number(s):
- HEDL-SA-2558-FP; CONF-820406-8; ON: DE82014007; TRN: 82-015906
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Topical meeting on fast, thermal and fusion reactor experiments, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 12 Apr 1982; Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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