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The Development of Equipment and Methods for Centrifugally Casting Reactor Fuel Slugs (open access)

The Development of Equipment and Methods for Centrifugally Casting Reactor Fuel Slugs

This technical report describes the design and construction of equipment and the development of methods for multiple mold, centrifugal casting of reactor fuel slugs. Advantages of the centrifugal casting method over the conventional fabrication methods were found to be (1) fewer operations, (2) fewer and more easily recovered residues, (3) less expensive equipment, and (4) the production of fuel slugs in shapes and in alloys not well adapted to other methods of manufacture. The method consisted of vacuum melting the alloy in stoppered crucibles and bottom pouring into a spinning rotor carrying 16 radially arranged copper molds. The castings so produced were used without further processing, except for cropping the sprue end to obtain the specified length.
Date: September 29, 1953
Creator: Shuck, Arthur B., 1918-
System: The UNT Digital Library