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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: April 1961

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including progress in research and development areas such as analyzing the compatibility of the AMF machine with the Douglas Point Plant, establishment of a test program, for critical component concepts, and activity on the design of the adapter valve as a critical component for the refueling machine.
Date: April 1961
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: April 1963

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including near completion of the work on the on-power refueling machine component design, orientation toward the development of ultrasonic test procedures for the first phase of the program, and obtaining limited results on the ternary composition for delayed failure hydrogen embrittlement of zirconium.
Date: May 20, 1963
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: April 1964

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including completion of experimental work on the AMF on-power refueling machine for the refueling machine system for CANDU, continued preparations for the heat transfer tests to evaluate the effect of a cosine shaped axial heat flux for Columbia University, and continued preparation for nuclear startup at Sargent and Lundy.
Date: May 18, 1964
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: August 1961

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including a study performed to establish the test requirements for determining D2O leakage within the refueling machine system, preliminary stress analysis on a simplified model of the housing components for the adapter valve, and further studies into the low pressure subcooled burnout correlation.
Date: September 22, 1961
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: August 1963

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including final machining and honing of the handling tube pressure shells for the on-power refueling machine, continued data collection on the low heat flux boiling process at University of Michigan, and preparation of a report on thorium fueled D2O moderated power reactors.
Date: September 19, 1963
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: December 1961

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including continued work on completing performance and development specification for various critical components of the on-power refueling system, modifications to the test stand located at AMF's Steamboat Road Laboratory were completed, and testing of the four-inch Okadee sliding valve was performed.
Date: January 18, 1962
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: December 1962

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including beginning design work on drafting the test requirements for the fuel-and-ram tube for the on-power refueling system, several points of progress made in studies on zirconium technology, and discontinuation of the irradiation of the two tubular UO2 fuel elements at General Electric's Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor.
Date: January 7, 1963
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: February 1962

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including delays in fabricating the prototype boilers test section due to unsatisfactory welds between the tubes and tubesheets, testing of three thin-wall nested-tube assemblies to determine the characteristics of twisted ribbon and short type spacers, and concentrated efforts on developing a brazing procedure to provide reproducible void-free end closures on HWCTR size metal elements.
Date: March 19, 1962
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: February 1964

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including utilization of the prototype sheath tubing tester for ultrasonic testing of fuel sheath tubing at GE, Richland, continued shakedown operations with the test section for Du Pont's fog cooled star test, and a development program in progress for Du Pont's Studies for Thorium Breeder Reactor Program.
Date: March 18, 1964
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: January 1962

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including the completion of the final detailed drawings for the 48-port monitor scanning valve, completion of the prototype adapter valve save for heaters, insulation, CO2, DO2, and electrical service lines, and comments on completed tests such as the ball valve dynamic seal test, materials wear test, and position indication test.
Date: February 23, 1962
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: January 1963

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including continued testing of specimens of the handling tube pressure shells for manufacturing the on-power refueling system, partial completion of analysis of the heat transfer experiments at GE, Richland, and reports of fluctuating water levels in steam generators leading to three nuclear operation shutdowns.
Date: February 25, 1963
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: January 1964

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including final adjustments to the refueling components to the refueling machine system for CANDU, beginning the study of the details of the cosine heater tube test section installation, and a thorium fueled reactor design was prepared and submitted to ORNL as a part of the Thorium Fuel Utilization Reactor Study.
Date: February 17, 1964
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: July 1961

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including the complete evaluation to select a six-tube on-power refueling machine supported on a single column carriage as a reference design, further analysis of this machine's problem areas and stability, and tests on high pressure heat transfer loops to test burnout.
Date: August 17, 1961
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: July 1962

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including work done during the month to develop a circuit that would not require high pressure gas for pressurizing and purging for the refueling machine for the Canadian Deuterium Uranium Reactor, ultrasonic testing of fuel sheath tubing at GE, Hanford, and several tests involved with zirconium technology.
Date: August 17, 1962
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Heavy Water Power Reactor Program Monthly Report: July 1963

Description: Report documenting progress on the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program including the refueling machine project entering the final stages of component machining, reports of the results of the first few "slow heat" cycles performed on the dome seal, and redesigning the specimen for the orientation of hydride platelets for stress orientation tests.
Date: August 23, 1963
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