Recoil Activity from Stainless-Steel Cladding: a Major Contribution to Coolant-Stream Radioactivity in GCR-2 (open access)

Recoil Activity from Stainless-Steel Cladding: a Major Contribution to Coolant-Stream Radioactivity in GCR-2

From abstract: An estimate is presented of the radioactivity in the helium coolant of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, GCR-2, due to entry into the coolant of recoil nuclei from neutron-induced reactions which take place in the fuel element cladding, type 304 stainless steel. Two systems were considered: one without a filter and the other utilizing a by-pass filter designed to reduce the concentration of contaminants in the coolant.
Date: 1959
Creator: Brassert, W. L.; Gardiner, G. K. & Morse, F. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Hazards Summary Report to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on a Research Reactor for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (open access)

Final Hazards Summary Report to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on a Research Reactor for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

From summary: Report on the location, final design, and hazards analysis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor Facility. It is hoped that the reactor plans described in this report may be approved from the safety standpoint, so that a license and construction permit for the facility may be granted and construction started.
Date: 1956
Creator: Thompson, Theos Jardin; Benedict, Manson; Cantwell, Thomas & Axford, Roy A.
System: The UNT Digital Library