SL-1 Annual Operating Report: February, 1960-January 3, [1961] (open access)

SL-1 Annual Operating Report: February, 1960-January 3, [1961]

The Stationary Low Power Reactor No. 1 (SL-1) was a boiling water reactor demonstration plant for remote military bases. The plant had been operated by Combustion Engineering, Inc. from February, l959 until January 3, 1961 at which time a nuclear excursion rendered the plant inoperable, This report summarizes the of operations of maintenance, test, health and safety, and administrative activities for the year February, 1960 until the incident.
Date: June 15, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation and Consolidation of Electrolytic Thorium (open access)

Evaluation and Consolidation of Electrolytic Thorium

Abstract: "Sound, fabricable ingots of thorium were produced by triple are melting of electrolytic thorium. Consumable electrodes were fabricated by tack welding of cold-pressed and vacuum-sintered bars of the granular thorium electrodeposited from a molten-salt bath. The hydrogen content of the electrodeposited material was reduced from 80 to 4 ppm by vacuum sintering at 1250 C at pressures below 1 x 10-(-3) mm of mercury. Both sodium and chlorine content were reduced during melting; sodium from 250 to 25 ppm and chlorine from 1000 to 30 ppm. Oxygen and HCl acid-insoluble contents increased during sintering and melting. Oxygen content increased from 0.35 to 0.50 w/o and HCl acid-insoluble content from 0.8 to 4.0 w/o. A starlike includion revealed by metallographic examination of the as-cast thorium was identified as ThO2."
Date: June 15, 1955
Creator: Saller, Henry A.; Dickerson, Ronald F. & Foster, Ellis L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operating Experience with Heat Transfer System Pumps at the Hallum Nuclear Power Facility (open access)

Operating Experience with Heat Transfer System Pumps at the Hallum Nuclear Power Facility

Introduction: It is the purpose of this report to describe the operating and maintenance experience obtained at HNPF on the sodium heat transfer pumps.
Date: June 15, 1964
Creator: Durand, R. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
SNAP 10A FSEM-3 Agena Compatibility Test (open access)

SNAP 10A FSEM-3 Agena Compatibility Test

From abstract: This report summarizes the results of SNAP-10A/Agena developmental testing and final vehicle systems tests.
Date: June 15, 1965
Creator: Teresa, M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
HNPF Control System Response During Transient Conditions (open access)

HNPF Control System Response During Transient Conditions

Abstract: This report documents the results of power ramps inposed on the HNPF during the month of January 1964.
Date: June 15, 1964
Creator: Shaw, P. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 5: July-December 1964 (open access)

Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 5: July-December 1964

Progress report for the Piqua Reactor Operations Analysis Program describing observations and analyses at the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility (PNPF). The program goals are to monitor operations and collect data in order to ensure that the plant's operation is safe, to improve design and performance, to evaluate the performance and lifetime of the plant's components and systems, to evaluate plant safety and safeguards, and to disseminate all information to the scientific community.
Date: June 15, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analog Models for HNPF Control and Protection Studies (open access)

Analog Models for HNPF Control and Protection Studies

Abstract: This report, intended as a working document, contains analytic representations and analog models of the Hallam Nuclear Power Facility as used in studies of the Control and Protection Systems.
Date: June 15, 1964
Creator: Dunsmore, C. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High heat flux heater development status report (open access)

High heat flux heater development status report

The development of a high heat flux heater for use in corrosion rate and stress-rupture tests of fuel cladding materials in a sodium environment is described.
Date: June 15, 1968
Creator: McKisson, R. L. & Babbe, E. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library