Fast Reactor Control and Safety Meeting November 10-11, 1954 (open access)

Fast Reactor Control and Safety Meeting November 10-11, 1954

Report issued by the APDA over a 2 day reactor safety meeting during November, 1954. A modified transcript of the safety meeting is presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1955
Creator: Thalgott, F. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Report by Atomic Power Development Associates Covering Work from the Period August 1, 1954 to January 31, 1955 (open access)

Information Report by Atomic Power Development Associates Covering Work from the Period August 1, 1954 to January 31, 1955

Report issued by the APDA over the work conducted between August 1954 and January 1955. Descriptions of the studies, facilities, and equipment used during this time are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: January 31, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description and Some Safeguard Aspects of Proposed Developmental Fast Neutron Breeder Reactor (open access)

Description and Some Safeguard Aspects of Proposed Developmental Fast Neutron Breeder Reactor

Report that generally describes sodium cooled fast reactors, the features and facilities of such a reactor proposed by Atomic Power Development Associates, and then its safety and siting considerations.
Date: July 25, 1955
Creator: Atomic Power Development Associates
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of Developmental Fast Neutron Breeder Power Reactor Plant (open access)

Description of Developmental Fast Neutron Breeder Power Reactor Plant

Report that generally describes sodium cooled fast reactors, the features and facilities of such a reactor proposed by Atomic Power Development Associates, and then its safety and siting considerations.
Date: September 1, 1955
Creator: Atomic Power Development Associates
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transient Temperature Simulation of Reactor Primary Loop (open access)

Transient Temperature Simulation of Reactor Primary Loop

Report issued by the APDA over simulator studies conducted on their Developmental Fast Breeder Reactor. The simulator studies were "designed to predict both the normal and abnormal operating characteristics of the APDA Developmental Fast Breeder Reactor" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 1, 1956
Creator: Olson, Richard G. & Ritchie, Donald J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report of Research and Development Activities: April - June 1957 (open access)

Quarterly Report of Research and Development Activities: April - June 1957

Progress report issued by the APDA over research and development activities of the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. Materials, fuel engineering, and test operations of the plant are presented and discussed.
Date: 1957
Creator: Atomic Power Development Associates
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equation of State and Heat Content of Uranium (open access)

Equation of State and Heat Content of Uranium

Report issued by the APDA regarting studies conducted on the state of uranium at different temperature and pressure. Calculations are presented for the differing pressures of uranium; it includes tables.
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Brout, Robert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on the Possible Effects on the Surrounding Population of an Assumed Release of Fission Products into the Atmosphere from a 300 Megawatt Nuclear Reactor Located at Lagoona Beach, Michigan (open access)

Report on the Possible Effects on the Surrounding Population of an Assumed Release of Fission Products into the Atmosphere from a 300 Megawatt Nuclear Reactor Located at Lagoona Beach, Michigan

Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on the release of radioactive particles near Lagoona Beach, Michigan in 1955. "The possible effects on the surrounding population of a release of fission products at the Lagoona Beach site" (p. 1) are discussed. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: July 1957
Creator: Gomberg, Henry J.; Bassett, Thomas; Velez, Carlos & Donnell, Alton P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on Sodium Temperature Coefficients in Large Fast Reactors (open access)

Preliminary Report on Sodium Temperature Coefficients in Large Fast Reactors

Report issued by the APDA over preliminary studies conducted on temperature coefficients in fast breeder reactors. Methods and results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: 1959
Creator: Nims, J. B. & Zweifel, P. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermal Bowing of Core Subassemblies (open access)

Thermal Bowing of Core Subassemblies

Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on thermal bowing of core sub-assemblies at the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. As stated in the introduction and summary, "the present report deals with this problem in the design of the Enrico Fermi Reactor and with the method which has been adopted to avoid a positive temperature coefficient of reactivity" (p. 1). This report includes illustrations, and photographs.
Date: February 20, 1959
Creator: De Stordeur, Arnold
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fuel Enrichment for the Enrico Fermi Reactor (open access)

Fuel Enrichment for the Enrico Fermi Reactor

Report issued by the APDA over fuel enrichment processes at the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. As stated in the introduction, "the results that directly apply to the determination of the enrichment will be given" (p. 6). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1959
Creator: Garelis, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sodium Components Test Facility (open access)

Sodium Components Test Facility

Development of more reliable, lower cost components for high temperature liquid metal-cooled reactor plants.
Date: November 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library