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Dissipation of the reactor heat at the Savannah River Plant

Description: The effluent cooling water from the heat exchangers of the Savannah River nuclear reactors is cooled by natural processes as it flows through the stream beds, canals, ponds, and swamps on the plant site. The Langhaar equation, which gives the rate of heat removal from the water surface as a function of the surface temperature, air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed, is applied satisfactorily to calculate the cooling that occurs at all temperature levels and for all modes of water fl… more
Date: October 1, 1971
Creator: Neill, J. S. & Babcock, D. F.
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Deep versus shallow cooling ponds

Description: Some months ago, the Engineering Department was requested to make an evaluation estimate of the cost of obtaining approximately 150,000 gpm of cooling water from shallow ponds or from cooling towers. Their conclusions (see DPWZ-5305) were (1) that both schemes were feasible and each produced cooling water of approximately the same annual average temperature; (2) the cooling towers could be built more quickly, largely because no additional engineering data were required before construction would… more
Date: June 18, 1956
Creator: Babcock, D. F.
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Orientation of control rods

Description: It was recommended that the control rods in the septifoils of the reactor be reoriented in order to improve flux shaping; burnout was not mentioned. This memorandum re-examines the problem of orientation of the control rods considering not only flux shaping but also burnout.
Date: March 12, 1956
Creator: Babcock, D. F. & Bernath, L.
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Hazards summary memorandum: Savannah River reactors the production of tritium using tubular fuel elements

Description: The Savannah River reactors were operated initially for the production of plutonium, and used slug-type natural uranium fuel elements. Recently one reactor was converted to the production of tritium, and other reactors will be converted soon. slug-type elements (of enriched uranium-aluminum) were charged into this reactor in order to reduce to a minimum the development effort required before the shift to tritium was made. It was recognized, however, that the slug elements would be deficient in … more
Date: September 1, 1956
Creator: Babcock, D. F. & Menegus, R. L.
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Design data summary: Mark VIA fuel elements

Description: This report provides workable summary of the technical information developed to date for the Mark VIA fuel element. The report provides a satisfactory compilation of information for use as a basis for designing facilities for a production process.
Date: June 1, 1956
Creator: Babcock, D. F. & Woodhouse, J. C.
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Natural convection reactor

Description: A previous report described the conceptual design of a plutonium producing reactor that may be characterized as follows: Power output (2000 MW); cooling - (natural convection of light water through the reactor, up through a draft tube to an evaporative cooling pond, then back to the reactor, and fuel (400 to 500 tons of uranium enriched to 1.2% U-235). Because this reactor would be cooled by the natural convection of light water, it is believed that the construction costs would be significantly… more
Date: May 1, 1956
Creator: Babcock, D. F.; Bernath, L.; Menegus, R. L. & Ring, H. F.
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