HEAVY WATER MODERATED POWER REACTORS QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT FOR MAY, JUNE, AND JULY 1958

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1958

OSTI ID:4274418

Isakoff, L comp

Continued progress is reported on the nuclear, engineering, and materials aspects of several designs of 100-Mwe power reactors that are heavy water moderated and natural uranium fueled. A method, developed from experimental data, is given for predicting the resonance escape probabillty of almost any natural lattice ln heavy water. The start of firm design for the high temperature irradiation facility, the HWCTR, is reported. Also reported is the continued low temperature irradiation of uranium metal fuels. The results of the fabrication of several additional fuel tubes of U-2 wt. % Zr clad with Zircaloy- 2 are presented. Further results are given in the development of a cold-swaging process for the manufacture of low cost fuel elements of natural uranium oxide. (For preceding period see DP-295.) (auth)

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) & Co. Atomic Energy Div., Wilmington, Del.
• NSA Number: NSA-13-008282
• OSTI ID: 4274418
• Report Number(s): DP-315
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

CANNING
CONFIGURATION
ECONOMICS
FABRICATION
FUEL CANS
FUEL ELEMENTS
FUELS
HEAVY WATER MODERATOR
HIGH TEMPERATURE
HWCTR
IRRADIATION
LOW TEMPERATURE
MATERIALS TESTING
MEASURED VALUES
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
NATURAL URANIUM FUEL
PLANNING
POWER PLANTS
REACTOR CORE
REACTORS
RESEARCH REACTORS
RESONANCE ESCAPE PROBABILITY
TUBES
URANIUM ALLOYS
URANIUM OXIDES
ZIRCALOY
ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS
ZONES