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Determination of statistically based design limits associated with engineering models.

Description: This report provides a usable reference of methods and procedures for the construction of both one-sided and two-sided ..gamma../P statistical tolerance limits for design application to both linear and nonlinear models in any number of variables.
Date: February 1, 1980
Creator: Ginsburg, H.
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Model for incorporating fuel swelling and clad shrinkage effects in diffusion theory calculations

Description: A model has been devised for incorporating into the thermal feedback procedure of the PDQ few-group diffusion theory computer program the explicit calculation of depletion and temperature dependent fuel-rod shrinkage and swelling at each mesh point. The model determines the effect on reactivity of the change in hydrogen concentration caused by the variation in coolant channel area as the rods contract and expand. The calculation of fuel temperature, and hence of Doppler-broadened cross sections… more
Date: March 1, 1980
Creator: Schick, W.C. Jr.; Milani, S. & Duncombe, E.
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Out-of-pile hydriding and thermal relaxation of reactor fasteners using Zircaloy components: the REM-120 test.

Description: Six different fastened joints representing the various combinations of materials in contact with Zircaloy in the Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR) were tested in 520/sup 0/F water for 60 days to determine the out-of-pile hydriding tendencies of the Zircaloy components in the joints. No evidence of massive, accelerated hydriding was found in this test although other testing has shown that local hydriding can occur in one of the fasteners. The same six fastener designs were tested in 600/sup 0/F… more
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: Duenkel, D.A.
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Uranium-233 purification and conversion to stabilized ceramic grade urania for LWBR fuel fabrication

Description: High purity ceramic grade urania (/sup 233/UO/sub 2/) used in manufacturing the fuel for the Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR) core was made from uranium-233 that was obtained by irradiating thoria under special conditions to result in not more than 10 ppM of uranium-232 in the recovered uranium-233 product. A developmental study established the operating parameters of the conversion process for transforming the uranium-233 into urania powder with the appropriate chemical and physical attribut… more
Date: October 1, 1980
Creator: Lloyd, R.
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Summary of the thermal evaluation of LWBR

Description: This report describes the thermal evaluation of the core for the Shippingport Light Water Breeder Reactor. This core contains unique thermal-hydraulic features such as (1) close rod-to-rod proximity, (2) an open-lattice array of fuel rods with two different diameters and rod-to-rod spacings in the same flow region, (3) triplate orifices located at both the entrance and exit of fuel modules and (4) a hydraulically-balanced movable-fuel system coupled with (5) axial-and-radial fuel zoning for rea… more
Date: March 1, 1980
Creator: Lerner, S.; McWilliams, K. D.; Stout, J. W. & Turner, J. R.
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