The reactor designers used the reactor system that was designed for aircraft carriers. The unit I was destined for was Three Mile Island's cousin built about the same time. The report you seek was the WASH 760 report conducted by the AEC in the sixties. Boiling water reactors were run dry out in the desert... results had to buried in place. Yes I have read about the integrally safe shutdowns but they ran balls of europium down the control holes. The government is the only place such updates could be used, commercial power can not afford to use them! Where do you think rare earths compounds come from mainly? China of course. The only civilian book I have seen on this subject was "We Almost Lost Detroit" . In this book it covers many failed reactor tests and accidents involving naval power reactors. The most famous accident involving the first breader reactor the Fermi 1 is most enlightening. A very good book is McFee's "Curve of Binding Energy" has some accident info in it. The neatest new book is called "One Point Safe" about how our government is helping out the Soviet balance of payments by buying up U235 in ton lots. Looks like the government is doing it's darned best to go nuclear.
Larry Leins Ole Miss Rebel larryleins@hotmail.com
Created on Monday, April 30, 2001 12:18 PM EDT by larry l Leins