Logging, coring, and analyses of the gravel in the Gravel Gertie test cell
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Argonne National Laboratory has proposed an experimental reactor facility known as the Zero Power Plutonium Reactor, ZPPR. As much as 3,000 kilograms of plutonium may be in the facility at one time. Therefore, the containment of heavy-element particles in event of a major accident is a primary concern in the safety analysis of the facility. Sandia Corporation conducted a series of relevant field tests in 1956 and 1957 in which they incorporated uranium as a tracer with the high explosive used in the final two tests. These tests were conducted in the Gravel Gertie test structure at the Nevada Test Site. The present project supplements Sandia's post-event investigation through a study of the distribution of the uranium tracer in the 800 tons of residual gravel in the test cell.
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Argonne National Laboratory has proposed an experimental reactor facility known as the Zero Power Plutonium Reactor, ZPPR. As much as 3,000 kilograms of plutonium may be in the facility at one time. Therefore, the containment of heavy-element particles in event of a major accident is a primary concern in the safety analysis of the facility. Sandia Corporation conducted a series of relevant field tests in 1956 and 1957 in which they incorporated uranium as a tracer with the high explosive used in the final two tests. These tests were conducted in the Gravel Gertie test structure at the Nevada Test Site. The present project supplements Sandia's post-event investigation through a study of the distribution of the uranium tracer in the 800 tons of residual gravel in the test cell.
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