HEAVY WATER MODERATED POWER REACTORS. Progress Report for July 1959
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.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT(07-2)-1
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-004125
- OSTI ID:
- 4219011
- Report Number(s):
- DP-405
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-60
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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