SPERT 1 - REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS

Duration: 32 min

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Atomic Energy Commission

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Reports on reactor safety investigations involving use of the special power excursion reactor test (SPERT), a tank type, atmospheric-pressure, heterogeneous reactor. Explains that SPERT was designed primarily for the study of reactor kinetics and safety parameters in functionally similar reactors. Illustrates a number of intentionally induced power excursions.