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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.
G. B. Cole, G. F. Haase, W. R. Kennedy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 179-182
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28047
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Two sample transfer systems (one mechanical and one pneumatic) were developed for experimental isotope irradiations in Savannah River Plant production reactors. The systems operate through existing access ports, but independently of the production charge-discharge cycle. A unique device acquires and presents the pneumatic carrier for counting.
