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Operational testing highlights of Fort St. Vrain

Description: The Fort St. Vrain program has progressed through construction, preoperational testing, fuel loading, initial criticality, and operational testing at power levels up to 2 percent related power. To date, all tests necessary before the rise to full power have been completed, and the rise-to- power program is expected to be resumed again in late 1975. Major plant systems, including the prestressed concrete reactor vessel and circulators, have demonstrated adequate performance. Extensive tests on t… more
Date: September 29, 1975
Creator: Cadwell, J. J.; McEachern, D. W.; Read, J. W.; Simon, W. A. & Walker, R. F.
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DT fusion neutron radiation strengthening of copper and niobium

Description: The initial results of a comparative study of the radiation strengthening and damage structures produced in Cu and Nb by D-T fusion and fission reactor neutrons are described. The radiation strengthening produced by a given fluence of fusion neutrons above about 10$sup 17$ n/cm$sup 2$ is equal to that produced by a fluence of fission reactor neutrons (E greater than 0.1 MeV) ten times as great. This difference is about twice as large as would be expected if the strengthening scaled with damage … more
Date: September 29, 1975
Creator: Mitchell, J.B.; Van Konynenburg, R.A.; Echer, C.J. & Parkin, D.M.
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