Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC) was selected by DOE as the preferred site to install and conduct operational, performance, and reliability tests on the ground-based prototype of the space reactor. These tests will be conducted with the reactor in a large vacuum chamber to simulate the space environment. A containment vessel system from the decommissioned Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor will house the chamber and provide appropriate safeguards. The reactor will generate 2.5-MW thermal energy from uranium nitride fuel clad in a Nb-1% Zr alloy and will use lithium as the primary coolant. The Ground Engineering System (GES) phase of the SP-100 …
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Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC) was selected by DOE as the preferred site to install and conduct operational, performance, and reliability tests on the ground-based prototype of the space reactor. These tests will be conducted with the reactor in a large vacuum chamber to simulate the space environment. A containment vessel system from the decommissioned Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor will house the chamber and provide appropriate safeguards. The reactor will generate 2.5-MW thermal energy from uranium nitride fuel clad in a Nb-1% Zr alloy and will use lithium as the primary coolant. The Ground Engineering System (GES) phase of the SP-100 is administered by DOE-HQ through DOE-SAN with ANSI/ASME NQA-1 forming the basis for the Quality Assurance Requirements. All participants in the GES program, which includes seven Federal Laboratories and several private contactor, will develop programs to implement the GES Quality and Reliability Assurance Program Plan (Q and RAP). WHC developed a sub-tier Q and RAP for our activities based on existing procedures. The laboratory is committed to and has been implementing NQA-1 since 1979. As a result, procedures that satisfy the 18 NQA-1 criteria are in place. These are familiar to and understood by the performing personnel at WHC. The narrative for each criterion is a simple description of the selected methodology. WHC, Q and AP is, then, a road map to the implementing procedures. 6 refs.
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