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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
R. E. Wood, J. F. Kunze, F. L. Sims, C. S. Robertson, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 105-113
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28039
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The present shortage of fast reactor test space, particularly for test regions > 2cm in diameter, led to a series of tests to develop an adequate spectrum-hardening filter so that a suitable fast-neutron flux environment could he obtained in a large thermal test reactor. A boron filter was the best of a number of filter materials tested, and verification measurements were made in the Engineering Test Reactor II (ETR) Critical Experiment. After several design modifications, fast-neutron flux spectra typical of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) were obtained at levels ∼½ of those obtainable in the peak region of the EBR-II but with a test hole diameter of 3.5 cm. Softer neutron spectra, typical of some of the proposed fast breeder designs, can be obtained in a filtered ETR experiment with fissile fission rates greater than those in the EBR-II.