The HGCR-1, a Design Study of a Nuclear Power Station Employing a High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor with Graphite-UO₂ Fuel Elements (open access)

The HGCR-1, a Design Study of a Nuclear Power Station Employing a High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor with Graphite-UO₂ Fuel Elements

"The preliminary design of a 3095-Mw(thermal), helium-cooled, graphite- moderated reactor employing sign conditions, 1500 deg F reactor outlet gas would be circulated to eight steam generators to produce 1050 deg F, 1450-psi steam which would be converted to electrical power in eight 157-Mw(electrical) turbine- generators. The over-all efficiency of this nuclear power station is 36.5%. The significant activities released from the unclad graphite-UO₂ fuel appear to be less than 0.2% of those produced and would be equivalent to 0.002 curie/ cm/ sup 3/ in the primary helium circuit. The maintenance problems associated with this contamination level are discussed. A cost analysis indicates that the capital cost of this nuclear station per electrical kilowatt would be around 0, and that the production cost of electrical power would be 7.8 mills/kwhr" (p. iii).
Date: 1959
Creator: Cottrell, William B.; Copenhaver, C. M.; Culver, H. N.; Fontana, M. H.; Kelleghan, V. J. & Samuels, G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physics Division Annual Progress Report, March 10, 1959 (open access)

Physics Division Annual Progress Report, March 10, 1959

Report containing reports from the Physics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory that cover a wide variety of subjects.
Date: June 10, 1959
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Physics Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polarographic Theory, Instrumentation, and Methodology (open access)

Polarographic Theory, Instrumentation, and Methodology

Classical polarography and voltammetry with other electrodes are discussed . 189 references taken from literature between mid-1957 and mid-to-late 1959 is surveyed.
Date: 1959
Creator: Hume, David N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
In Situ Tracers Project Second Quarterly Progress Report: June-August 1959 (open access)

In Situ Tracers Project Second Quarterly Progress Report: June-August 1959

The purpose of this program is to summarize and evaluate the potential usefulness of in situ tracers, design and construct prototypes of large low-level soft beta counters for industrial application, especially of such isotopes as carbon-14 and tritium, and design and construct a prototype of a large low-level liquid scintillation detector for use vi the process gamma counting.
Date: 1959
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
System: The UNT Digital Library