The metal fabrication program for the Clinton Engineer Works and the Hanford Engineer Works. Including the Dummy Slug Program and the Unbonded Slug Program -- Project 1553

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1945

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10158630· OSTI ID:10158630

The uranium slugs were used as the charge into the pile for the manufacture of minute quantities of plutonium. So little was known of uranium`s commercially adaptable physical properties that it was relegated almost to the category of a laboratory curiosity. A series of experimental and developmental programs were inaugurated to determine not only the extrudability, machinability and other physical properties, but also the influence on these of microscopic quantities of impurities present in the uranium. This historical document describes these early studies in the following sections: exceptional characteristics of the slug program; extrusion; drawing, waging and rolling; outgassing and straightening; Project 1030 (procurement of an additional sixty tons of finished slugs over and above that quantity originally supplied to the Clinton Laboratories) Machining, grinding and grooving; development of canning methods; production of canned slugs; and The Dummy Slug program.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Wilmington, DE (United States). Engineering Dept.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 10158630
• Report Number(s): SR/H--739; ON: DE94013519
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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