The Critical Mass Laboratory at Rocky Flats

Rothe, R.E.

doi:10.13182/nse03-a2372

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“…The ZPPR plates came from the original ZPPR which was located at Idaho National Laboratory (Shuck et al, 1967). NCERC also has other materials, including the "Rocky Flats Shells", HEU hemi-shells which were produced at the Rocky Flats plant (seen in Figure 7) (Rothe, 2005, Rothe, 2003, the HEU "C-Disks" (Brewer, 1998) (used in the SPEC-MET-FAST-004 benchmark and the Hypatia experiment discussed in Section 4.2, seen in Figure 8), and the Compact Nuclear Power Source (CNPS) fuel (Hansen and Palmer, 1989). The CNPS experiment used high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) Tri-structural Isotropic (TRISO) fuel, making NCERC one of the few facilities in the world with appreciable amounts of HALEU TRISO fuel.…”

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The National Criticality Experiments Research Center and its role in support of advanced reactor design

Thompson

Maldonado²,

Cutler³

et al. 2023

Front. Energy Res.

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The National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) located at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) in the Device Assembly Facility (DAF) and operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is the only general purpose critical experiments facility in the United States. Experiments from subcritical to critical and above prompt critical are carried out at NCERC on a regular basis. In recent years, NCERC has become more involved in experiments related to nuclear energy, including the Kilopower/KRUSTY demonstration and the recent Hypatia experiment. Multiple nuclear energy related projects are currently ongoing at NCERC. This paper discusses NCERC’s role in advanced reactor design and how that role may change in the future.

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