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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.
C. E. Dickerman, L. E. Robinson, E. S. Sowa, J. H. Monaweck, C. August
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 8 | August 1967 | Pages 461-473
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27777
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Behavior of two types of irradiated metallic fast-reactor fuel pins under transient heating in an inert-gas atmosphere in the TREAT reactor was studied under conditions ranging up to complete meltdown. Irradiation-induced changes in failure thresholds, modes of failure, and post-failure fuel motion were significant but not enough to make gross changes in the course of an accident. The amount of swelling observed in the post-experimental fuel residue was large enough to have played a significant role in determining the course of a meltdown accident.
