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Power Reactor Program. Progress Report to Savannah River Operations Office, United States Atomic Energy Commission for the Period March 1, 1961 Through March 31, 1961

Description: An evaluation of two thin-walled outer tubes showed that more extensive alpha working of the billet core stock results in more uniform cladding on the extruded tube. In an effort to eliminate breakthrough and to reduce eccentricity, shift, and bending of the mandrel, two experimental coppernickel billets with Zircaloy sleeves were extruded to check a modified billet design. lt was observed that the final grain size of the unalloyed uranium core of a thin- walled outer tube is insensitive to sma… more
Date: May 11, 1961
Creator: Isserow, S.; Anderson, R. W.; Richmond, W. J.; Tuffin, W. B.; Larson, W. L.; Smoot, P. R. et al.
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