Description: Thin Safety Margin : The Sefor Super-prompt-critical Transient Experiments, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, 1970–71, Paperback by Havens, Jerry; Geren, Collis, ISBN 1682261743, ISBN-13 9781682261743, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Thin Safety Margin charts the history of SEFOR, a twenty-megawatt reactor that operated for three years in the rural Ozark Mountains of Arkansas as part of an internationally sponsored program designed to demonstrate the Doppler effect in plutonium-oxide-fueled fast reactors. Authors Jerry Havens and Collis Geren draw upon this history to assess the accidental explosion risk inherent in using fast reactors to reduce the energy industrys carbon dioxide emissions. If a sufficiently powerful fast-neutron explosion were to cause the containment of a reactor such as SEFORs to fail, the reactors radiotoxic plutonium fuel could vaporize and escape into the surrounding environment, resulting in a miles-wide swath of destruction. The demonstration that the Doppler effect could prevent limited runaway reactivity in the event of an accident or natural disaster proved a critical development in producing safe nuclear technology. But while SEFOR was hailed as a breakthrough in nuclear safety, Havens and Gerens examination of the project, including the partial SCRAM that occurred in late 1970, confirms experts concerns regarding the limits of the Doppler effect and presents a compelling argument for caution in adopting fast reactors like SEFOR to reduce carbon emissions.
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Book Title: Thin Safety Margin : The Sefor Super-prompt-critical Transient Ex
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Thin Safety Margin : The SEFOR Super-Prompt-Critical Transient Experiments, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, 1970-71
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: History, Physics / Nuclear
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jerry Havens, Collis Geren
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
