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Radiant signs contract on microreactors for the military
California-based microreactor developer Radiant Industries has announced the signing of what it calls “the first-ever agreement” to deliver a mass-manufactured nuclear microreactor to a U.S. military base. The contract was signed with the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the U.S. Air Force as part of the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program.
J. D. Cerchione, W. R. Wallin, R. E. Rice
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 1 | February 1966 | Pages 11-20
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27561
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BORAX-V was the fifth in a series of boiling-water reactors operated by Argonne National Laboratory at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho. It was the first integral boiling-water nuclear superheating reactor to be operated in the United States. Super-heated steam was produced, in different experiments, in both the central and peripheral regions of the core. The nominal design maximum power of 20 MW(th) and 850°F exit steam temperature were both exceeded. Operational procedures and results of experiments are discussed. Areas of particular interest and investigation include the following: comparison of a centrally versus a peripherally located superheater core; superheater startup and shutdown cooling problems; superheater flooding reactivity worth and inadvertent flooding hazard; control of power split between the boiler and superheater zones of the reactor core; superheater fuel-cladding-material integrity; plant radioactivity levels; results of operation with defective fuel in both the boiler and superheater areas of the core; in-core instrumentation and data collection; transfer-function and physics experiments; and the water-chemistry program.