Document Details
Title:
A 50-TON STAINLESS STEEL REACTOR VESSEL ARRIVES FOR INSTALLATION AT THE NATIONAL REACTOR TESTING STATION WEST OF IDAHO FALLS
Document Location:
Location - DOE/NNSA NUCLEAR TESTING ARCHIVE Address - P.O. Box 98521 City - Las Vegas State - NV Zip - 89193-8521 Phone - (702)794-5106 Fax - (702)862-4240 Email - NTA@NV.DOE.GOV
Document Type:
OTHER
Document Type Other:
AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL
Publication Date:
1970 Dec 31
Declassification Status:
Never classified
Document Pages:
0002
Accession Number:
NV0096945
Document Number(s):
AEC708785
OpenNet Entry Date:
1994 Aug 27
OpenNet Modified Date:
2003 Sep 18
Description/Abstract:
NATIONAL REACTOR TESTING STATION, IDAHO...A 50-TON STAINLESS STEEL REA CTOR VESSEL ARRIVES FOR INSTALLATION IN THE POWER BURST FACILITY (PBF) AT THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION'S NATIONAL REACTOR TESTING STATION WE ST OF IDAHO FALLS. THE 29 FOOT-LONG 15-FOOT-WIDE OPEN TANK VESSEL WILL BE PLACED IN A CONCRETE VAULT PRIOR TO HOOKUP OF COOLANT PIPING AND I NSTALLATION OF REACTOR INTERNALS AND INSTRUMENTATION. THE PBF IS BEING BUILT TO PERMIT SAFETY DESTRUCTIVE TESTS OF NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEMBLIES W ITHOUT DAMAGING THE REACTOR ITSELF. PBF TESTING WILL SUPPLY DATA FOR T HE COMMISSION'S WATER REACTOR SAFETY PROGRAM. THE REACTOR VESSEL COMPO NENTS WERE MANUFACTURED BY P.F. AVERY COMPANY, BILLERICA, MASSACHUSETT S, AND ASSEMBLED BY GATE CITY STEEL COMPANY, POCATELLO, IDAHO. THE PBF WILL BE OPERATED FOR THE AEC BY IDAHO NUCLEAR CORPORATION. INITIAL OP ERATION IS PLANNED DURING THE SUMMER OF 1971.