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Burke, Lawrence L.; Hendricks, Terry N.; Kanter, Seth J.; Morgan, Cheré D.; Broussard, David J.
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy - NE (United States)2018
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy - NE (United States)2018
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[en] The Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility, located on the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), northwest of the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC), has been in programmatic shutdown for more than twenty-three years. Construction of TREAT by the Teller Construction Co., Portland, Oregon, was started in February, 1958, and completed in early November, 1958. The reactor first achieved criticality on February 23, 1959. Operations continued until April 28, 1994, when the reactor was shut down due to the lack of a programmatic mission. Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) identified a need to resume transient testing of new reactor fuels. The Resumption of Transient Testing Program (RTTP) has readied the TREAT facility to resume transient testing operations. The first reactor criticality since the shut down in 1994 was achieved on November 14, 2017. This report details the radiological measurements taken in the TREAT Reactor Building and the surrounding environment prior to and just after its restart in order to characterize the radiological conditions that existed prior to and during the initial restart operations. The authors would like to acknowledge the support from RTTP Management and the TREAT Operations staff for allowing the extensive radiological surveys, as well as the health physics technicians from the INL Radiological Control organization who performed many of the measurements referenced in this report.
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1 Apr 2018; 274 p; OSTIID--1467479; AC07-05ID14517; Available from https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/Sort_5014.pdf; PURL: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1467479/
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AIR COOLED REACTORS, ENERGY SOURCES, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS, FUELS, GAS COOLED REACTORS, GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS, HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS, MATERIALS, REACTOR MATERIALS, REACTORS, RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS, SOLID HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS, TEST FACILITIES, TEST REACTORS, THERMAL REACTORS
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