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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
John R. Banister, D. M. Ellett
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 4 | December 1975 | Pages 660-679
Technical Paper | Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24340
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Measurements were made of the change of in situ pore pressures and the associated accelerations in the saturated clayey silts (ML) of Fawn Creek and Black Sulphur Valleys at 2.1, 4, 7, and 10 km from surface zero. The early pore pressure changes correlated well with accelerations while the later values correlated better with velocities. The pressure changes ranged from 17.1 to 0.36 psi far the peak pressures and from 1.7 to 0.10 psi for the average pressure increases 10 sec after the detonation. Pretest estimates indicated that liquefaction was considered probable but it was not observed and the pore pressure increases were one-quarter or less than those associated with this phenomenon.