[ RadSafe ] Liquid fuel reactors
James Barnes
james.g.barnes at att.net
Wed Mar 30 14:15:05 CDT 2011
Also wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueous_homogeneous_reactor
Jim Barnes
Yes, there was a liquid fuel reactor prototype back in the old days, the 1940s
at Los Alamos and 50s at Oak Ridge: the homogeneous reactor. There also was
the homogeneous thorium breeder reactor. Basically, a homogeneous reactor is
one in which the fuel, a uranyl salt, is evenly dispersed in the moderator,
light or heavy water or a liquid metal. Details were reported by S.E. Beall and
J. A. Swarthout in their presentation "The Homogeneous Reactor Test" in
conference in Geneva in 1955. Or, if you have access to some old nuclear
engineering textbook, see pages 179-187 in Nuclear Science and Reactors, by
Jacobs, Kline and Remick, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1960.
The first homogeneous reactors of this type (Lopo) was built at Los Alamos and
went critical in May of 1944 at 0.05 watts. Further models were called Hypo and
Supo (pages 143 - 148, op.cit.)
As always, the opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Kjell Johansen
Two Rivers, WI
kjell.johansen at NextERAEnergy.com
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