OMR Control-Safety Rod Component Development Tests (open access)

OMR Control-Safety Rod Component Development Tests

Abstract: A magnetic-jack control-safety rod is under development for the 45.5 thermal megawatt Organic Moderated Reactor. The rod is "unitized," i.e., the poison element, drive, position indicator, and shock absorber are contained in a compact assembly which is inserted in a regular fuel channel opening in the core. Tests to develop components capable of operating under these conditions are described and results are reported.
Date: September 15, 1959
Creator: Howell, J. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Test of Natural-Circulation Double-Tube Steam Generator (open access)

Preliminary Test of Natural-Circulation Double-Tube Steam Generator

Abstract: Testing of the Natural Circulation Steam Generator has been conducted with the Sodium Reactor Experiment. A necessary modification of the original feed-water control system was utilized.
Date: December 1, 1959
Creator: Welsh, R. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Power Flattening in Sodium Graphite Reactors by Spatial Variation of Moderator Properties (open access)

Power Flattening in Sodium Graphite Reactors by Spatial Variation of Moderator Properties

Abstract: In the present study, the variation of moderator composition was postulated to be effected by the inclusion of varying amounts of beryllium oxide in the graphite of an SGR.
Date: December 15, 1959
Creator: Connolly, T. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a Fuel Handling System for an Organic Moderated Reactor (open access)

Development of a Fuel Handling System for an Organic Moderated Reactor

Abstract: This report describes the features of several systems which were rejected as inadequate, and the evaluation of a design leading to the construction of a prototype cask and its associated equipment.
Date: 1959
Creator: Leppard, J. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hot-Pressure Bonding of OMR Fuel Plates (open access)

Hot-Pressure Bonding of OMR Fuel Plates

Abstract: An alluminum-clad low-enrichment, uranium-alloy fuel element of flat plate configuration has been proposed for the Organic Moderated Reactor (OMR).
Date: November 15, 1959
Creator: Alm, G. V.; Binstock, M. H. & Garrett, E. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maritime Organic Moderated and Cooled Reactor (open access)

Maritime Organic Moderated and Cooled Reactor

Introduction: This document describes the results of a six-week conceptual design study of an organic moderated and cooled reactor (OMCR) power plant adapted to a Class T-7 tanker.
Date: May 27, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terminal Status Report for the Processing Refabrication Experiment (open access)

Terminal Status Report for the Processing Refabrication Experiment

Introduction: A low-capacity, low-decontamination plant can be built, as part of a power reactor complex, to avoid long distance transfer of fuel to a high-capacity aqueous processing plant. Activation of such a complex, with the processing plant adjacent to the reactor it serves, could decrease the cost of the integrated fuel cycle. The study of this concept is a major objective of the Processing Refabrication Experiment (PRE).
Date: November 15, 1959
Creator: Sinizer, D. I.; Mattern, K. L. & Kendall, E. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hazards Analysis of the Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment (open access)

Hazards Analysis of the Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment

Introduction: The description of the Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment, (OMRE), its location, its safety system, and operative procedures have been previously detailed. The present report, although dealing with the subject of OMRE safety, has the more detailed intent of (1) determining the behavior of the OMRE under extremely unlikely sets of conditions; and (2) providing additional design information in the areas of reactivity coefficients, burnout heat flux, and reactor control.
Date: December 15, 1959
Creator: Williams, R. O., Jr.; Allen, W. O.; Ash, E. B.; Scott, W. W.; Shimazaki, T. T.; Sletten, H. L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
SRE Fuel Element Damage: An Interim Report (open access)

SRE Fuel Element Damage: An Interim Report

Abstract: During the course of power run 14 on the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) at low power, the temperature difference among various fuel channels was found to be undesirably high. Normal operating practices did not succeed in reducing this temperature difference to acceptable values and on July 26, 1959, the run was terminated.
Date: November 30, 1959
Creator: Jarrett, A. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library