POWER REACTOR PROGRAM. Progress Report to E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company for the Period October 1, 1959 through October 31, 1959
Post-extrusion processing of unalloyed U tube No. 54 terminated with its unexpected failure during autoclave testing. Four billets with unalloyed U cores are being prepared for extrusion as natural U prototypes in a program aimed at producing several tubes with 3% enriched cores for irradiation testing at Vallecitos. Individual experimental tubes with cores of U-1 wt.% Si and U-1.5 wt.% Mo are being processed for irradiation. In the program aimed at finding a metastable beta-phase alloy, heat treatment and aging studies were carried out on extruded, cast alloys of two compositions, 0.3 wt.% Cr and 0.3 wt.% Cr-0.3 wt.% Mo. Effort in the stainless steel- Zircaloy joint program was concentrated on fabrication of full-size joints. (For preceding period see NMI-4398.). (W.L.H.)
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Metals, Inc., Concord, Mass.
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-023216
- OSTI ID:
- 4152185
- Report Number(s):
- NMI-7221
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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