Spert Destructive Test - 1 - On Aluminum, Highly Enriched Plate - Type Core

Year Published: 1965

Creator: Now U S Nuclear Regulatory Agency Phillips Petroleum Co

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the destructive test program of a highly enriched, aluminum plate-type core in the SPERT-1 reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho. Discusses initial phases of the program, describes the transient testing into the region of limited core damage and presents slow motion studies to show the effects of the final core destruction test on November 5, 1962. Shows in detail the post-destruc tive core disassembly and examination.


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