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This work was partially supported by grants from the Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and from the Petroleum Research Fund, the American Chemical Society. Acknowledgment is made to the Cherry L. Emerson Center of Emory University for the use of its resources. We also thank the Pacific Northwest Laboratory s EMSL for valuable computer time through its Grand Challenge project, GC3564. 

The reactor to be discussed is the large FWR manufactured by the Westinghouse Electric Company, which has been built for the Diablo Canyon station of the Pacific Gas Electric Company, the Donald C. Cook station of American Electric Power Corporation, and the Zion station of Commonwealth Edison Company. Rated capacities of 3250 MW (thermal) and 1060 MW (electric) have been used. The following brief description of this reactor was abstracted from the Safety Analysis Report of the Doiudd C. Cook station [Al]. 

Great Plains Gasification Associates (GPGA), a consortium of five companies with their own gas pipeline subsidiaries, originally owned the plant. The owner companies were American Natural Resources Company, MidCon Corporation, Pacific Lighting Corporation, Tenneco, Inc., and Transco Energy Company. American Natural Resources became the consortium s operating corporation. 

The ElRl was far from perfect—parts were easily broken, valves were hard to reach unless the operator was a contortionist, and the weapon made an uncomfortably heavy load on the operator s back—but the weapon held a range of 15 to 20 yards for 15 to 20 seconds and on the whole seemed suitable for use in special situations. Since the few that had been produced for the purpose of testing were the only practical American flame throwers in existence, the Army issued them to troops in training camps. Some troops actually carried these crude weapons overseas to the Pacific Islands and employed them in battle. Corporal Tirrell s assault on a Japanese bunker was made with one of these, an ElRl. 

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