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The Manufacture of Enriched ZPR-III Fuel Plates
This report is essentially a procedural account of the fabrication of certain enriched ZPR-III fuel plates for use in the ANL fast critical experiments at Arco, Idaho. A total of 208.92 kilograms of fully enrich, unalloyed uranium was processed. Of this amount 202.74 kilograms was received in the form of Oak Ridge type reduction buttons and 6.18 kilograms as pressed-powder plates. The completed fabrication consisted of 720 rectangular fuel plates having the nominal dimensions 3in. x 2in. x 1/8in. Their combined weight of 159.21 kilograms represents 76.22% of the weight of enriched material processed. The final distribution of the enriched material was as follows: [figure not transcribed].
Date:
October 1956
Creator:
Yaggee, Frank L.
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The UNT Digital Library