ARMY GAS-COOLED REACTOR SYSTEMS PROGRAM. Monthly Progress Report for July 1960

Technical Report · Wed Aug 31 04:00:00 EDT 1960

OSTI ID:4122662

Power ascension in the Gas-cooled Reactor Experiment was successfully completed to a limited power of 1.85 Mw. In development studies on the Army Reactor (ML-1), problems were encountered with perosity in the lead castings for the shield. The increase in pressure drop across the recuperator, due to the finning operation, was reduced slightly by modifying the fabrication process. The functions of the gas make-up skid and the gas storage skid are to be consolidated. All three blowers on the BMI-16 test loop, operating with a test element foilowing removal of the I-3P, became inoperable in less than 200 hr. A peak surface temperature of 1570 deg F was measured for the IB-2T-1 element. Corrosion tests were performed on Hastelloy X, Inconel, and Inconel 702 at 68 deg F in the ML-1 reference coolant gas. The specimens were also subjected to the reference gas for 5000 hr at 1750DEF. (For preceding period see IDO-28558.) (C.J.G.)

• Research Organization: Aerojet-General Nucleonics, San Ramon, Calif.
• NSA Number: NSA-15-001054
• OSTI ID: 4122662
• Report Number(s): IDO-28559
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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INCONEL ALLOYS
LEAD
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