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DOE signs two more OTAs in Reactor Pilot Program
This week, the Department of Energy has finalized two new other transaction agreements (OTAs) with participating companies in its Reactor Pilot Program, which aims to get one or two fast-tracked reactors on line by July 4 of this year. Those companies are Terrestrial Energy and Oklo.
Victor E. Grob, E. Santandrea, Hilmar Ritz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 6 | June 1960 | Pages 514-524
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25760
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As part of the Yankee and the Belgian Reactor-3 Critical Experiments program at the Westinghouse Reactor Evaluation Center, measurements have been made of the parameters leading to p, f, and ϵ in a light-water moderated heterogeneous reactor with slightly enriched UO2 fuel rods clad in stainless steel. A detailed description of this reactor is given in reference 1. Measurements were made using 4.48% and 2.73% enriched fuel with lattice pitches of 0.470 and 0.435 in. The individual UO2 sintered pellets, in the fuel rods, had a diameter of 0.300 in. and a length of 0.600 in. The 4.48% and 2.73% fuel rods contained 90 and 80 pellets, respectively. The stainless steel cladding was 0.305 in. i.d. and 0.347 in. o.d. for the 4.48% enriched fuel, and 0.306 in. i.d. and 0.338 in. o.d. in the case of 2.73% enrichment. The measurements were performed using a higher fuel enrichment than used previously at Bettis (2, 3) and elsewhere for similar experiments, thus uncovering a large unexplored range of enrichments.