Thin Safety Margin : : The SEFOR Super-Prompt-Critical Transient Experiments, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, 1970-71.

Thin Safety Margin charts the history of SEFOR, a twenty-megawatt reactor that operated for three years in the rural Ozark Mountains of Arkansas as part of an internationally sponsored program designed to demonstrate the Doppler effect in plutonium-oxide-fueled fast reactors. Authors Jerry Havens an...

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Place / Publishing House:Chicago : : Arkansas Scholarly Editions,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (105 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: SEFOR Site, Strickler, Arkansas, December 1971
  • Chapter 3: Nuclear Fission Bombs and Reactors
  • Chapter 4: Catastrophic Release of Radioactive Materials
  • Chapter 5: Nuclear Explosion Potential in Fast Reactors
  • Chapter 6: Tickling the SEFOR Dragon
  • Chapter 7: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  • Chapter 8: Conclusions
  • Postscript
  • Index.