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The legacy of Windscale Pile No. 1
The core of Pile No. 1 at Windscale caught fire in the fall of 1957. The incident, rated a level 5, “Accident with Wider Consequences,” by the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), has since inspired nuclear safety culture, risk assessment, accident modeling, and emergency preparedness. Windscale also helped show how important communication and transparency are to gaining trust and public support.
T. W. Kerlin, S. J. Ball, R. C. Steffy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 118-132
Technical Paper and Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30920
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The dynamic characteristics of the MSRE were calculated for operation with 235U and 233 U fuels. The analysis included calculation of the transient response for reactivity perturbations, frequency response for reactivity perturbations, stability, and sensitivity to parameter variations. The calculations showed that the system dynamic behavior is satisfactory for both fuel loadings.
