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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.
T. Lauritzen, F. A. Comprelli
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 6 | June 1967 | Pages 390-391
Technical Paper and Note | Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27863
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A nondestructive technique has been developed to determine the maximum temperature attained in an irradiation capsule containing no external instrumentation. The technique utilizes fusible metal thermometers which have been modified to allow remote evaluation by postirradiation gamma scanning.
