Building NYX [Engineering Materials]
From April, 1951, to August 1954, New York Shipbuilding corporation carried out a subcontract with E.I. du Pont de Nemours company that was without parallel in the shipyard's history. The work, designated the NYX Project'' for reasons of security, which was vital to the operations of the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, S.C., which was then being designed and constructed by du Pont for the Atomic Energy Commission. It consisted of three broad parts: Development and experimental work; fabrication and testing of a prototype unit; and fabrication of production units. Five production units were ultimately built, one of them converted from the prototype. All were fabricated from stainless steel, and involved welding techniques, control of thermal distortion and tolerances never previously attempted on assemblies of comparable size. This report provides engineering drawings for this project.
- Research Organization:
- Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-76SR00001
- OSTI ID:
- 7368466
- Report Number(s):
- CAPE-3058; SR/H-580; ON: TI93015344
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: These drawings accompany report No. DPE--836. 4 35-mm aperture cards
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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