Safety requirements, facility user needs, and reactor concepts for a new Broad Application Test Reactor

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10185932· OSTI ID:10185932

Ryskamp, J M ^[1]; Liebenthal, J L; Denison, A B; Fletcher, C D

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This report describes the EG&G Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program (LDRD) Broad Application Test Reactor (BATR) Project that was conducted in fiscal year 1991. The scope of this project was divided into three phases: a project process definition phase, a requirements development phase, and a preconceptual reactor design and evaluation phase. Multidisciplinary teams of experts conducted each phase. This report presents the need for a new test reactor, the project process definition, a set of current and projected regulatory compliance and safety requirements, a set of facility user needs for a broad range of projected testing missions, and descriptions of reactor concepts capable of meeting these requirements. This information can be applied to strategic planning to provide the Department of Energy with management options.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 10185932
• Report Number(s): EGG-NRRT-10332; ON: DE93002039
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Jul 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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