Download or read book Army Reactor Program written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AR 50 7 03 28 2009 ARMY REACTOR PROGRAM Survival Ebooks written by Us Department Of Defense and published by Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AR 50-7 03/28/2009 ARMY REACTOR PROGRAM , Survival Ebooks
Download or read book Army Reactor Program written by Department of the Army Headquarters, Department of the Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This regulation establishes policies, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for implementing the Army Reactor Program to ensure that Army reactors are operated in a safe, secure, and reliable manner from activation through decommissioning. This regulation designates the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7 as the proponent of the Army Reactor Program and establishes the Army Reactor Office under t h e U . S . Army Nuclear and Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Agency to coordinate the Army Reactor Program.
Download or read book Nuclear and Chemical Weapons and Materiel written by Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1-1. Purpose This regulation establishes Department of the Army (DA) policies, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for the Army Reactor Program (ARP). The purpose of the ARP is to ensure that Army reactors are operated in a safe, secure, and reliable manner from activation through decommissioning. This regulation designates the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7 (DCS, G-3/5/7) as the proponent for the ARP, and the U.S. Army Nuclear and Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Agency (USANCA) as the focal point for the management of the ARP and the Army Reactor Office (ARO).
Download or read book Nuclear and Chemical Weapons and Materiel Army Reactor Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new publication. This regulation establishes policies, assigns responsibilities and presents procedures for implementing for the Army Reactor Program to ensure that Army reactors arc operated in a safe secure and reliable manner from activation through decommissioning. This regulation designates the Deputy Chief for Operations and Plans as the proponent of the Army Reactor Program and the U.S. Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency as the focal point for the management of the Army Reactor Program and the Army Reactor Office.
Download or read book The Army s Nuclear Power Program written by Lawrence H. Suid and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 6 and August 9, 1945, the world became aware of the destructiveness of nuclear energy when the U.S. Army Air Corps dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even before the bombs were detonated, though, President Harry Truman had directed his thoughts toward non-military uses of the atom, recognizing that the atomic bomb had given man a new understanding of the forces of nature. This book examines the history and development of nuclear power from the perspective of the U.S. Army's nuclear power program, telling its story from the creation of the Office of Research and Development through the program's days of growth,and on to its eventual decline. This history examines the development of the United States Army's nuclear power program from its inception, through the development and operation of six small nuclear power plants throughout the Western Hemisphere, to its evolution into a military support agency. The Manhattan Project District Engineer, General Kenneth Nichols, who generated the idea for the program, worked for the development of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. From the initial plans to develop nuclear power plants at remote bases, the book traces the path the Army took in getting its proposals approved by the Atomic Energy Commission, formally organizing the nuclear program, and building a prototype of a nuclear power plant. Separate chapters are devoted to Fort Greely, the nuclear program at the height of its success and accomplishment, and its subsequent decline and transitional period. With its list of suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index, this volume will be a valuable resource for courses in military history, energy issues, and the development of atomic power. It will also represent an important addition to college, university, and public libraries.
Download or read book Nuclear Reactor Health and Safety Program written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reactor development written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Army Reactors Experimental Area Historic American Engineering Record Report ID 33 D written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) established the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) in 1949 as a place for the safe development of nuclear energy. It selected the desert site in eastern Idaho on the Snake River Plain for its abundant supply of subsurface water and its relative isolation from densely populated settlements. The land already was in public ownership because the United States Navy had used it as a proving ground in connection with its Pocatello Ordnance Depot during World War II. The NRTS presently consists of about 890 square miles. Its name was changed to Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in 1974 and then to Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in 1997. The business of NRTS was to experiment with and then accumulate and disseminate knowledge about nuclear reactors. One of the major goals of the United States Congress was to promote a commercial nuclear power industry. Much of the testing and experimentation at the NRTS was related to reactor safety and promoted this goal directly. Military application, although focused on weapon systems such as nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft bombers, were expected to generate knowledge and experience transferable to a commercial industry.
Download or read book Powering the U S Army of the Future written by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, Powering the U.S. Army of the Future examines the U.S. Army's future power requirements for sustaining a multi-domain operational conflict and considers to what extent emerging power generation and transmission technologies can achieve the Army's operational power requirements in 2035. The study was based on one operational usage case identified by the Army as part of its ongoing efforts in multi-domain operations. The recommendations contained in this report are meant to help inform the Army's investment priorities in technologies to help ensure that the power requirements of the Army's future capability needs are achieved.
Download or read book Legal and Institutional Issues of Transportable Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by International Atomic Energy Agency. This book was released on 2013 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transportable nuclear power plant (TNPP) is a factory-manufactured, movable nuclear power plant, which when fuelled is capable of producing final energy products such as electricity and heat. Transportable nuclear power plants are not designed to operate during transportation. This publication highlights the potential benefits of TNPPs, describes the legal and institutional issues for their deployment in countries other than the country of origin, reveals challenges that might be faced in their deployment, and outlines pathways for resolution of the identified issues and challenges in the short and long terms. It is addressed to senior legal, regulatory and technical officers in Member States planning to embark on a nuclear power programme or to expand an existing one by considering the introduction of a TNPP.
Download or read book Army Gas Cooled Reactor Systems Program Quarterly Progress Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Gas Cooled Reactor Systems Program Study of Mobile Gas Cooled Nuclear Power Plants Volume I Plant Description written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study considered a wide variety of possible designs for a mobile gas-cooled nuclear power plant to produce 500 kw(e) for military applications. It included consideration, optimization, and selection of coolants (air, nitrogen, helium, argon, or otuers); thermodynamic cycles (direct open-cycle, direct closed-cycle, and dual cycles, both regenerative and non-regenerative); reactor moderaters (beryllium oxide, metal hydrides, water, or no moderator); shielding (during operation and transport following operation); high-temperature materials (for reactor core, reflecter, controls, shielding, structure, heat exchangers, and turbomachinery); and investigation of many other variables. Conceptual designs were completed for several systems. The High Density Moderated Reactor System, designated HDMR, evolved as the optimum gas-cooled nuclear power plant, and is described. This concept utilizes a closed regenerative Brayton cycle with air as the working fluid. Hastelloy-X pins are used in the 18-inch diameter core; some contain UO/sub 2/ fuel and some contain yttrium hydride moderator. The hydrogen moderation provides maximum safety within acceptable shield weights. Other systems studied are also described. The HDMR offers significant advantages over existing military power plants, both nuclear and fossil fueled, in terms of logistic support requirements, mobility, reliability, and simplicity. (auth).
Download or read book Atomic America written by Todd Tucker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men: John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg. The Army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though it has been overshadowed by the accident at Three Mile Island, SL-1 is the only fatal nuclear reactor incident in American history, and it holds serious lessons for a nation poised to embrace nuclear energy once again. Historian Todd Tucker, who first heard the rumors about the Idaho Falls explosion as a trainee in the Navy's nuclear program, suspected there was more to the accident than the rumors suggested. Poring over hundreds of pages of primary sources and interviewing the surviving players led him to a tale of shocking negligence and subterfuge. The Army and its contractors had deliberately obscured the true causes of this terrible accident, the result of poor engineering as much as uncontrolled passions. A bigger story opened up before him about the frantic race for nuclear power among the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force -- a race that started almost the moment the nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS), where the meltdown occurred, had been a proving ground where engineers, generals, and admirals attempted to make real the Atomic Age dream of unlimited power. Some of their most ambitious plans bore fruit -- like that of the nation's unofficial nuclear patriarch, Admiral Rickover, whose "true submarine," the USS Nautilus, would forever change naval warfare. Others, like the Air Force's billion dollar quest for a nuclear-powered airplane, never came close. The Army's ultimate goal was to construct small, portable reactors to power the Arctic bases that functioned as sentinels against a Soviet sneak attack. At the height of its program, the Army actually constructed a nuclear powered city inside a glacier in Greenland. But with the meltdown in Idaho came the end of the Army's program and the beginning of the Navy's longstanding monopoly on military nuclear power. The dream of miniaturized, portable nuclear plants died with McKinley, Legg, and Byrnes. The demand for clean energy has revived the American nuclear power industry. Chronic instability in the Middle East and fears of global warming have united an unlikely coalition of conservative isolationists and fretful environmentalists, all of whom are fighting for a buildup of the emission-free power source that is already quietly responsible for nearly 20 percent of the American energy supply. More than a hundred nuclear plants generate electricity in the United States today. Thirty-two new reactors are planned. All are descendants of SL-1. With so many plants in operation, and so many more on the way, it is vitally important to examine the dangers of poor design, poor management, and the idea that a nuclear power plant can be inherently safe. Tucker sets the record straight in this fast-paced narrative history, advocating caution and accountability in harnessing this feared power source.
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Download or read book Chapter 3 Army Reactor Vessel Surveillance and Vessel Examination written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the very earliest power producing reactors were those designed and constructed for the Army. They were built under the Army package power reactor (APPR) concept that dictated small pressure vessels and high flux cores to yield a proportionately high power output for a small physical plant. Because these characteristics result in high fluxes at the pressure vessel, the Army reactors have experienced embrittlement at rates considerably in excess of that exhibited by larger, commercial power reactors. The experience of the Army reactor program can be looked upon as being highly compressed, potential projections of the problems that may be faced by commercial power reactors in the future. The lower operating temperatures and the different, radiation-sensitive steels of the Army reactors accentuate their implications to commercial reactors. For these reasons and the fact that one, the PM-2A, was used as a vessel test experiment for failure analysis, the Army surveillance programs are reviewed here in depth.
Download or read book Army PWR Support and Development Program Six Months Summary Report October 1 1961 MARCH 31 1962 written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress is reported on research and development tasks on the Army Pressurized Water Reactor Power Plants. Topics covered include: engineering services. performance of existing cores, replacement core development, primary system performance, primary system activity control, radiation damage in reactor pressure vessels, secondary system performance, radioactive waste control, nuclear power instrumentation, replacement core procurement, and integrated test programs for SM-1, SM-1A, and PM-2A. (M.C.G.).
