Sintering boat transport system for the SAF line. [Secure Automated Fabrication]

Conference · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5570395

Egli, W; Bogart, R L

The Secure Automated Fabrication (SAF) line will be a remotely operated process for the manufacture of breeder reactor fuel pins. The sintering boat transport system will service the pellet operations. Since the Boat Transport System will be the major link between several subsystem operations, reliability and ease of maintenance are prime requirements for the design. A prototypic version of the Boat Transport System was designed, built and tested to verify the operability of the selected approach. Extensive testing provided valuable input to the final design and substantiated the soundness of the concept.

• Research Organization: GA Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (USA); Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76FF02170
• OSTI ID: 5570395
• Report Number(s): HEDL-SA-2906-FP; CONF-831047-121; ON: DE84003889
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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