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Fast Reactor Control and Safety Meeting November 10-11, 1954

Description: Report issued by the APDA over a 2 day reactor safety meeting during November, 1954. A modified transcript of the safety meeting is presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1955
Creator: Thalgott, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transient Temperature Simulation of Reactor Primary Loop

Description: Report issued by the APDA over simulator studies conducted on their Developmental Fast Breeder Reactor. The simulator studies were "designed to predict both the normal and abnormal operating characteristics of the APDA Developmental Fast Breeder Reactor" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 1, 1956
Creator: Olson, Richard G. & Ritchie, Donald J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Equation of State and Heat Content of Uranium

Description: Report issued by the APDA regarting studies conducted on the state of uranium at different temperature and pressure. Calculations are presented for the differing pressures of uranium; it includes tables.
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Brout, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report on the Possible Effects on the Surrounding Population of an Assumed Release of Fission Products into the Atmosphere from a 300 Megawatt Nuclear Reactor Located at Lagoona Beach, Michigan

Description: Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on the release of radioactive particles near Lagoona Beach, Michigan in 1955. "The possible effects on the surrounding population of a release of fission products at the Lagoona Beach site" (p. 1) are discussed. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: July 1957
Creator: Gomberg, Henry J.; Bassett, Thomas; Velez, Carlos & Donnell, Alton P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarterly Report of Research and Development Activities: April - June 1957

Description: Progress report issued by the APDA over research and development activities of the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. Materials, fuel engineering, and test operations of the plant are presented and discussed.
Date: 1957
Creator: Atomic Power Development Associates
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermal Bowing of Core Subassemblies

Description: Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on thermal bowing of core sub-assemblies at the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. As stated in the introduction and summary, "the present report deals with this problem in the design of the Enrico Fermi Reactor and with the method which has been adopted to avoid a positive temperature coefficient of reactivity" (p. 1). This report includes illustrations, and photographs.
Date: February 20, 1959
Creator: De Stordeur, Arnold
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel Enrichment for the Enrico Fermi Reactor

Description: Report issued by the APDA over fuel enrichment processes at the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. As stated in the introduction, "the results that directly apply to the determination of the enrichment will be given" (p. 6). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1959
Creator: Garelis, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Report on Sodium Temperature Coefficients in Large Fast Reactors

Description: Report issued by the APDA over preliminary studies conducted on temperature coefficients in fast breeder reactors. Methods and results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: 1959
Creator: Nims, J. B. & Zweifel, P. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Description of Developmental Fast Neutron Breeder Power Reactor Plant

Description: Report that generally describes sodium cooled fast reactors, the features and facilities of such a reactor proposed by Atomic Power Development Associates, and then its safety and siting considerations.
Date: September 1, 1955
Creator: Atomic Power Development Associates
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sodium Components Test Facility

Description: Development of more reliable, lower cost components for high temperature liquid metal-cooled reactor plants.
Date: November 1959
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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