Design study for a graphite-moderated gas-cooled reactor using partially enriched uranium

Prepared for the Second U. N. International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 1958. A sumruary is presented of the research and development aspects of the U. S. program for graphitemoderated, gas-cooled reactors using partially enriched uranium. The availability of helium and enriched urarium in the United States presents a large degree of design freedom. On the basis of the study, it is concluded that such a reactor will produce power cheaper than a reactor using natural urarium. At the present time gas-cooled reactors are technologically ard economically competitive with the best available pressureized-water reactors. (J.S.R.)