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Critical Experiment with BORAX-V: Internal Superheater

Author(s) -

K.E. Plumlee,

Q.L. Baird,

G.S. Stanford,

P.I. Amundson

Publication year - 1963

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/4101127

Subject(s) - superheater , borax , materials science , metallurgy , reactivity (psychology) , flux (metallurgy) , environmental science , chemistry , waste management , engineering , medicine , raw material , alternative medicine , organic chemistry , pathology , boiler (water heating)

A critical experiment was performed with 12 BORAX-V superheater subassemblies in a central voidable region plus 1228 to 1525 UO/sub 2/ fuel pins (3 wt% enriched) in a peripheral region. Removing water (28% of superheater volume) at room temperature decreased reactivity by 2.2%. The midplane (two- dimensional) peak-to-average power distribution in the voided superheater was approximately 1.24, mostly attributable to flux depressions within insulated fuel boxes. Cadmium ratios are also reported. The experiment was initiated to supplement computational information which might have affected plans for loading the superheater zone into the BORAX-V reactor. No changes were indicated by the experiment. (auth

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