HEAVY WATER MODERATED POWER REACTORS. Progress Report for July 1959

Technical Report · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1959

OSTI ID:4219011

Isakoff, L comp

Continued progress is reported on the design and construction of the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor (HWCTR), a high-temperature facility for simultaneously irradiating sizable numbers of fuel elememts; 65% of the firm design and 5% of the construction were complete at the end of July 1959. Further analyses are given of the response of the KWCTR system to changes in reactivity and steam valve setting. A method is described for increasing the heat transfer burnout limit for water-cooled fuel elements by roughening the heat transfer surfaces. The results of cold swaging experiments on two six-foot-long tubes of stainless-steel-clad uranium oxide are also reported. (For preceding period see DP-395.) (auth)

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) & Co. Explosives Dept., Wilmington, Del.
• NSA Number: NSA-14-004125
• OSTI ID: 4219011
• Report Number(s): DP-405
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

BURNOUT
FUEL CANS
FUEL ELEMENTS
HEAT TRANSFER
HEAVY WATER MODERATOR
HIGH TEMPERATURE
HWCTR
IRRADIATION
PLANNING
POWER PLANTS
REACTIVITY
REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
REACTORS
STAINLESS STEELS
STEAM
TESTING
URANIUM OXIDES
VALVES
VARIATIONS