Sunday, July 6, 2008

GETR: ACRS approves power level increase from 27 to 50 MW

I sparkplugged this power level increase shortly after I started at Vellecitos during January 1960. Others got the incentive compensation, if any.

I was present at this ACRS meeting although a GE front man gave the pitch to ACRS. Duirng a break Harry Monson of ACRS and ANL (I had previously worked in his group at ANL) asked me if I was aware of the intense damage from sodium-water reactions in failures of prototype steam generators for fast reactors. I responded that our sodium inventories in capsule experiments would be relatively low and well contained.



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