Spert Project Quarterly Technical Report, January-March 1963
Description:
Additional data from the 3.2-msec-period destructive test were analyzed. Recovery and cleanup operations in the Spert I area were completed. Each of the 270 highly enriched, aluminum-clad fuel plates in the core was found to have experienced melting to some degree. The available data on the nature of the pressure pulse and on the condition of the core fuel plates at the time of the pulse are consistent with the hypothesis that the observed destructive effects were produced by a self-propagating…
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Date:
May 20, 1963
Creator:
Schroeder, F. ed.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department