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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
E. S. Bettis, R. W. Schroeder, G. A. Cristy, H. W. Savage, R. G. Affel, L. F. Hemphill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 6 | November 1957 | Pages 804-825
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A35495
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The Aircraft Reactor Experiment was designed for operation at temperatures in the region of 1500°F at a power of 1 to 3 Mw with a fluoride-salt fuel circulating in a heterogeneous core. The moderator was hot-pressed BeO blocks cooled by circulating sodium. The heat produced was dissipated in water through hot liquid-to-helium-to-water heat exchange systems. All sodium and fuel circuit components were made of Inconel fabricated by inertgas (Heliarc) welding. The sj^stem was heated to design temperature by means of electrical heating units applied over all parts of the system. Instrumentation and control of the experiment were fairly conventional. For the most part, standard instruments were modified slightly for the high-temperature application. The reactor system was constructed and operated in a building specifically provided for the purpose.