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The Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor
Author: Karl P. Cohen
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Category : Fast reactors
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SOUTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL FAST OXIDE REACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Quarterly Report No. 16, February--April 1968
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Critical Studies of the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) in ZPR-3
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Category : Mixed oxide fuels (Nuclear engineering)
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Material Unaccounted for at the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor: The SEFOR MUF.
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The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission contracted with the General Electric Company to design, construct, and operate the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) to measure the Doppler effect for fast neutron breeder reactors. It contracted with Nuclear Fuel Services to fabricate the fuel rods for the reactor. When the reactor went critical in May, 1969, it appeared that some of the mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel rods did not contain the specified quantity of plutonium. The SEFOR operators soon found several fuel rods which appeared to be low in plutonium. The safeguards group at Brookhaven was asked to look into the problem and, if possible, determine how much plutonium was missing from the unirradiated rods and from the larger number which had been slightly irradiated in the reactor. It was decided that the plutonium content of the unirradiated and irradiated rods could be measured relative to a reference rod using a high resolution gamma-ray detector and also by neutron measurements using an auto-correlation circuit recently developed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). During the next two years, Brookhaven personnel and C.V. Strain of NRL made several trips to the SEFOR reactor. About 250 of the 775 rods were measured by two or more methods, using a sodium-iodide detector, a high-resolution germanium detector, a neutron detector, or the reactor (to measure reactivity). The research team concluded that 4.6 [+-] 0.46 kg of plutonium was missing out of the 433 kg that the rods should have contained. This report describes the SEFOR experiment and the procedures used to determine the material unaccounted for, or MUF.
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The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission contracted with the General Electric Company to design, construct, and operate the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) to measure the Doppler effect for fast neutron breeder reactors. It contracted with Nuclear Fuel Services to fabricate the fuel rods for the reactor. When the reactor went critical in May, 1969, it appeared that some of the mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel rods did not contain the specified quantity of plutonium. The SEFOR operators soon found several fuel rods which appeared to be low in plutonium. The safeguards group at Brookhaven was asked to look into the problem and, if possible, determine how much plutonium was missing from the unirradiated rods and from the larger number which had been slightly irradiated in the reactor. It was decided that the plutonium content of the unirradiated and irradiated rods could be measured relative to a reference rod using a high resolution gamma-ray detector and also by neutron measurements using an auto-correlation circuit recently developed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). During the next two years, Brookhaven personnel and C.V. Strain of NRL made several trips to the SEFOR reactor. About 250 of the 775 rods were measured by two or more methods, using a sodium-iodide detector, a high-resolution germanium detector, a neutron detector, or the reactor (to measure reactivity). The research team concluded that 4.6 [+-] 0.46 kg of plutonium was missing out of the 433 kg that the rods should have contained. This report describes the SEFOR experiment and the procedures used to determine the material unaccounted for, or MUF.
SOUTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL FAST OXIDE REACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Eighteenth Quarterly Report, August--October 1968
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SOUTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL FAST OXIDE REACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Quarterly Report No. 22, August--October 1969
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SOUTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL FAST OXIDE REACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Quarterly Report No. 20, February--April 1969
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Material Unaccounted for at the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor
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Category : Nuclear fuels
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Pages : 20
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Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor Development Program. Fourteenth Quarterly Report, August--October 1967
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SOUTHWEST EXPERIMENTAL FAST OXIDE REACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Quarterly Report No. 30, August--October 1971
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