[ RadSafe ] Saxton Nuclear Reactor and Pu mixed-oxide fuel

[John Jacobus]

Can anyone give me some information about this reactor
and the use of plutonium mixed-oxide fuel?

>From another list server

"The Saxton Nuclear Reactor was a 23.5 MWt pressurized
water test reactor built by Westinghouse on the site
of a coal-fired power plant in Saxton, PA.  It went
critical in 1962 and operated for 10 years.   Ideas,
such as boron shim, Pu mixed-oxide fuel, and the
laminated steel pressure vessel were investigated at
Saxton.  It was also used to train reactor operators
for many of the early nuclear power plants. The fuel
was removed after the shutdown in 1972 and sent to
Savannah River."

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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