Atomic Energy Commission Reactor

These data were obtained from U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Reactor Handbook, vol. I, Table 1.5.4, p. 487, Document AECD-3645, March, 1955. 

See, for example, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Reactor Handbook Physics, p. 450, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1955 and R. P. Feynman and T. A. Welton, The Calculation of Critical Masses Including the Effects of the Distribution of Neutron Energies, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Report LA-524, Jan. 21, 1947, declassified. 

United States Atomic Energy Commission, Reactor Safety Study An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants, USAEC Report WASH-1400 (Rasmussen Report), USAEC, Washington, D.C. (1975). 

The results of design studies, calculations, and experiments for the reactor types selected for investigation in the post-Wodd War II period were collected in the multivolume proceedings of several international conferences at Geneva (24). The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEG) sponsored the pubhcation of individual books between 1958 and 1964 describing the status of several reactor types (9,18,33—36). 

The EBWR Experimental Boiling Water Reactor, ANL-5607, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., 1957. 

Bottom 1 prototype HTGR operated successfully in all respects under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission s Power Reactor Demonstration Program. However, its si2e (only 40 MW) was insufficient to justify continued commercial operation. 

There had been small-scale probabilistic risk studies, but the first in-depth study v, as initiated by the U.S, Atomic Energy Commission in September 1972 and completed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). This was known as the Reactor Safety Study, W. SH-(400, Ociuher 1975) that set the pattern for subsequent PSAs not only nuclear, but chemical md tniii portation, PSA had it beginnings in nuclear power because of the unknown risk and the large amounts of funds for the investigation. 

The Atomic Energy Commission designated Argonne National Laboratory as the first national lab-oratoi-y on July 1, 1946. Ai-gonne was the lead labora-toiy for nuclear reactors, instrumental in designing and building the first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus in 19.54, and the first nuclear reactor that completely powered the town of Arco, Idaho, m 1955. 

The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 represented the interests of American scientists who wished to see nuclear energy developed for nonniilitai y purposes. It called for the establishment of a five-member civilian Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which could deliver weapons to the military only on presidential order. But the militaiy tensions ot the early Cold War delayed civilian nuclear power development until 1948, at which time 80 percent of the AEC s budget went to militaiy ends. In 1951, U.S. civilian nuclear power development consisted of only a small experimental government (liquid metal) reactor in Idaho. 

An electricity-producing nuclear breeder reactor commissioned by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 

Eichelberger, R. L., US Atomic Energy Commission Publication No. BNL-489 Proceedings of the French-American Conference on Graphite Reactors, 168-173, Nov. 12-13 (1957)t... 

Taylor, B. T. et al. (2000) HAZOP A Guide to Best Practice (Institution of Chemical Engineers, London). USAEC (1975) Reactor Safety Study, WASH-1400 (United States Atomic Energy Commission). 

Atoms for Peace, Dodd, Mead Co, NY (1955 ) 37)US Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service, "The Reactor Handbook, GovtPrintgOff, Washington, DC... 

Source. Bird et al. (2002) Griskey (2002) Reactor Handbook, Vol. 2, Atomic Energy Commission AECD-3646, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1955). 

USAEC (1975) Reactor Safety Study, WASH-1400 (United States Atomic Energy Commission). 

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