HEAVY MODERATED POWER REACTORS. Progress Report for September 1960

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1960

OSTI ID:4111705

Hood, R R; Isakoff, L comps

At the end of Sept. l960, construction of the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor (HWCTR) was 41% complete. Hydraulic tests of one of the two main D/ sub 2/O pumps for the facility were concluded satisfactorily. Extrusion billet designs that appear to afford satisfactory control of cladding thickness have been devised at Nuclear Metals, Inc., for both sizes of uranium metal tube desired for HWCTR irradiation tests. The first 10-ft-long fuel tube of compacted uranium oxide in Zircaloy was fabricated at the Savannah River Laboratory by a combination of vibratory compaction and swaging. The average oxide density in this tube was 91.8% of theoretical. (For preceding period see DP-535.) (auth)

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) & Co. Atomic Energy Div., Wilmington, Del.
• NSA Number: NSA-15-005813
• OSTI ID: 4111705
• Report Number(s): DP-545
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

CANNING
DENSITY
EXTRUSION
FABRICATION
FUEL ELEMENTS
HEAVY WATER
HEAVY WATER MODERATOR
HWCTR
HYDRAULICS
IRRADIATION
OSCILLATIONS
PUMPS
REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
REACTORS
SRLEF
TESTING
THICKNESS
TUBES
URANIUM
URANIUM OXIDES
ZIRCALOY