HEAVY WATER MODERATED POWER REACTORS. Progress Report, February 1962

Technical Report · Wed Feb 28 23:00:00 EST 1962

OSTI ID:4786351

Hood, R.R. comp.

Final preparations were made for the initial approach to criticality in the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor (HWCTR). Fabrication was completed on the first fifteen pairs of thin-walled uranium tubes for HWCTR irradiation tests. Work continued on the fabrication by mechanical compaction of Zircaloy-clad tubes of uranium oxide for irradiation tests. A 19-rod test section cooled by forced flow of boiling water at 1000 psia was tested to destruction by heat transfer burnout; the burnout data were in reasonable agreement with previous data for similar test sections. (auth)

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) & Co. Explosives Dept., Wilmington, Del.
• NSA Number: NSA-16-017290
• OSTI ID: 4786351
• Report Number(s): DP-715
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

BOILING
BURNOUT
CANNING
COMPACTING
CONFIGURATION
CRITICALITY
FABRICATION
FUEL CANS
FUEL ELEMENTS
HEAT TRANSFER
HEAVY WATER MODERATOR
HWCTR
IRRADIATION
POWER PLANTS
REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
REACTORS
TESTING
THICKNESS
TUBES
URANIUM
URANIUM OXIDES
ZIRCALOY