![]() ![]() There is also a beam facility with a thermal flux ~10 6 n/cm 2/s. Neutron fluxes in the various irradiation facilities are in the range of 10 12-10 13 n/cm 2/s at full power. The OSURR is licensed to 500 kW, utilizes LEU solid plate fuel, and has multiple vertical dry-tubes in which experiments can be placed. The power uprate to 500 kW was approved by the NRC in 1992.Īt present, the OSURR is the only operating research reactor in the State of Ohio. The fuel conversion from HEU to LEU was completed in 1988. Analyses were also done to support an increase in the reactor power. In the 1980s, analyses were performed to move from HEU to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. When operated in the natural convection cooling mode at power levels up to 10 kilowatts, the Lockheed reactor was essentially identical in operating characteristics to the OSURR for the first 25 years of operation. ![]() Lockheed operated a reactor very similar in design to the OSURR, at a power level of 1 megawatt steady-state thermal power, in a forced convection cooling mode. The reactor itself was supplied by Lockheed Nuclear Products, then a division of the Lockheed Georgia Company. This class of reactors share various common features, such as light water moderation and cooling, open pools, and plate-type fuel. This reactor is in a class of reactors generally known as a Materials Testing Reactor (MTR). The design of the OSURR is based on the Bulk Shielding Reactor (BSR), which was located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). It was originally a 10-kW training reactor that utilized high-enriched uranium (HEU) solid plate fuel. ![]() The Ohio State University Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL) was built in 1960 and the Research Reactor (OSURR) first went critical in 1961. ![]()
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