Reactor Development, Division

While the agency spent an increasing amount of money on safety-research projects, the regulators had no control over the program other than to request information on safety-related questions that were raised by the licensing process. There was much cooperation between the haz-ards-evaluation staff in the Division of Civilian Application and tire Reactor Development Division staff. In addition, the regulatory staff received research results ffom applicants for reactor facilities, licensees, and their manufacturers. But in titose days, when the Commission placed top priority on the successful development of a nuclear industry, it sought... 

The PRDC maintained regular contact with the AEC Reactor Development Division from late 1954 through 1955. While PRDC officials did not apply for a construction permit until January 1956, they followed a generally established informal procedure of keeping in touch with the AEC staff to resolve design and safety problems before submission of the formal application. 

In 1974, after failure and indications of failure of three commercial reprocessing ventures, the AEC reassigned programs for support of commercial fuel reprocessing to emphasize successful experience and lessons learned from that experience. Responsibilities were transferred from the AEC Division of Reactor Development and Oak Ridge National Laboratory with their pilot plant reprocessing model, to the Division of Production and DuPont Company-operated SRP with their safe, successful production-scale reprocessing experience. 

This facility design concept was not considered in White House reviews of reprocessing during the Ford and Carter Administrations, nor as an option for support by President Reagan, who had been elected on a platform to support reprocessing of commercial spent firel. The ERDA and the DOE had reassigned responsibilities for commercial fuel cycle to its Division of Reactor Development (later Office of Nuclear Energy) which supported pilot plant concepts of its national laboratories and rejected concepts based on successful experience and lessons learned from that experience. 

Oxco [Oxidative coupling] A process for converting natural gas to transport fuels and chemicals, based on the oxidative coupling of methane to ethane in a fluidized-bed reactor. Developed in Australia by the Division of Coal and Energy Technology, CSIRO, and BHP. 

J. Belle, ed., Uranium Dioxide Properties and Nuclear Applications, Division of Reactor Development, U.S., Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC, 1961. 

B. USAEC Reactor Research and Development Division Program.335... 

Standards are generally developed by consensus within professional societies, technical or trade associations, or governmental agencies. This section is primarily concerned with standards sponsored by the American Nuclear Society and the Reactor Physics branch of the USAEC Reactor Research and Development Division since it has been these efforts where nuclear practitioners have attempted to develop standards related to computing. 

Between November,- 1947 and January, 1948 certain administrative decision s were made which changied plans for construction of the MTR or High Flux Reactor at Clinton Laboratories. The Kellex Corporation was withdrawn as design contractor in November, 1947. On December 27. 1947 the AEC announced a decision to centralize reactor development at Argonne National-Laboratory (ANL). This included responsibility for the High.Flux Reactor. It was also announced that Monsanto Chemical, Company would terminate its direct ion. of Clinton Laboratories and that the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Division of the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation would assume direction, early in 19-48-The name of the laboratory was officially changed to Oak Ridge National Laboratory- (ORNL). 

Current Status and Future Technical and Economic Potential of Light Water Reactors, Prepared for Division of Reactor Development and Technology, USAEC,V WASH-1082 (March 1968). 

REreRENCED DIVISION OF REACTOR DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY STANDARD... 

Thomas, D.E. Hayes, E.T. (i960) The Metallurgy of Hafnium. Naval Reactors, Division of Reactor Development, US Atomic Energy Commission. 

Conceptual designs of the SPINNOR and VSPINNOR are mainly developed by the Reactor Physics Laboratory of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia. There is cooperation with the National Atomic Energy Agency (BATAN-Indonesia), especially with its Advanced Reactor System Division to perform certain optimization studies. 

U. S. Army Research Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5001, U, S. A., and Reactor Radiation Division,... 

Slade, D. H. (1968). TlD-24190 Methodology and Atomic Energy. Washington, DC US Air Resources Laboratory and Division of Reactor Development and Technology, US Atomic Energy Commission. 

Over the next five months, both the activities and the place of the hazard-evaluation group were discussed within several staff divisions, principally in the Division of Reactor Development and the newly created Division of Civilian Application. By September 1955, recently appointed general manager Kenneth Fields had reached the conclusion that the functions of the Hazards Evaluation Staff belonged with the licensing duties of the Division of Civilian Application. ... 

Four industry proposals came in under round one. A selection board composed of five members from the Division of Reactor Development and assisted by a technical advisory group of engineers and physicists reviewed and evaluated them. It used five general criteria to make its determinations (1) probable contribution of the proposed project toward achieving competitive nuclear power, (2) cost to the AEC, (3) financial risk (construction delays, cost overruns from unforeseen technical problems) to be taken by the proposer, (4) competence and responsibility of the proposer, and (5) assurances given against abandonment of the project. ... 

In March 1956 the Division of Reactor Development submitted a report to the Commission on the status of large-volume waste-disposal oper-... 

AEC established a Division of Reactor Development. President Truman announced program to develop the thermonuclear bomb. 

J. L. Binder, L. M. McUmber and B. W. Spencer Engineering Development Laboratories Reactor Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439... 

R. N. Lyon, in H RP Civilian Power Reactor Conference Held at Oak Ridge March 21-22, 1956, USAEC Report TID-7524, Research and Development Division, AEG, 1956. (p. 90)... 

Fr.ank W. Davis, Ecasibilily Study of Pressure Vessels for Nuclear Power Generating Reactors, US. EC Report AECU-3062, Division of Reactor Development, AEC, Deci mber 1955. (pp. 5-6)... 

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