Final report, PT IP-535-C: Test of smaller VSR`s in DR reactor
Because of rod-sticking problems at DR Reactor, a knuckle rod of B Reactor design was installed in vertical safety channel number 28. The substitute VSR, which has a smaller diameter than the original DR rod, has been tested for its operational feasibility including both drop time and reactivity effect. The reactivity effect of the rod was estimated by comparison of the reactivity transient caused by insertion of the specific B-type rod after scramming into the pile, with similar transients caused by normal vertical safety rod in an adjacent channel. This document lists the indicated relative control strength of the rod as an empirical basis for future safety calculations. Results indicate that the B-type knuckel rod in DR reactor is about 80% as strong as a normal DR vertical safety rod if used in equivalent flux distribution and location; this makes it reasonable to assume that the local control strength of the B-type knuckel rod is 98 {mu}b.
- Research Organization:
- General Electric Co., Richland, WA (United States). Hanford Atomic Products Operation
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 10147993
- Report Number(s):
- HW-77290; ON: DE94011110
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: Declassified; PBD: 17 Apr 1963
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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