CEND Critical Facilities Safeguards Report: BONUS Critical Experiment

Technical Report · Sat Oct 29 04:00:00 EDT 1960

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4361566· OSTI ID:4361566

Knapp, R. W. ^[1]

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1. Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (United States)

In August 1960, Combustion Engineering, Inc., Nuclear Division (CEND) was given approval by the AEC to activate CELL #1 of the CEND Critical Facilities at Windsor, Connecticut for performance of critical experiments on a mock-up of the BONUS reactor. The BONUS reactor, a 17 eMw boiling water unit with integral nuclear superheat is being designed by General Nuclear Engineering Corporation (GNEC), under a prime contract to the AEC. The reactor is now under construction at Punta Higuera, Puerto Rico, for the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority. The main objectives of the critical experiment program are to obtain data such as criticality, flooding coefficients, power distribution, and lattice para meters to support the design of the BONUS reactor. The data will be either extrapolated for use in the BONUS design or used to verify the calculational methods used in predicting the nuclear behavior of BONUS under conditions of temperature and power not achievable in the critical assembly.

• Research Organization: Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
• NSA Number: NSA-21-032008
• OSTI ID: 4361566
• Report Number(s): CEND-110
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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