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Part of the Army Nuclear Power Program, SL-1 was a prototype for reactors intended to provide electrical power and heat for small, remote military facilities, such as radar sites near the Arctic Circle, and those in the DEW Line. [9] The design power was 3 MW , [10] but some 4.7 MW tests had been performed in the months before the accident.
The SL-1 was designed by the Argonne National Laboratory to gain experience in boiling water reactor operations, develop performance characteristics, train military crews, and test components. Combustion Engineering was awarded a contract by the AEC to operate the SL-1 and in turn employed the Army's military operating crew to continue running ...
The tests proved key safety principles of the design of modern nuclear power reactors. Design power of BORAX-I was 1.4 megawatts thermal. The BORAX-I design was a precursor to the SL-1 plant, which began operations nearby in 1958. The principles discovered in the BORAX-I experiments helped scientists understand the fatal meltdown at SL-1 in ...
Explosion at National Reactor Testing Station's SL-1 Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One: 3: 22: 4 October 5, 1966: Monroe, Michigan, USA: Sodium cooling system malfunctions at Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor causing some fuel elements to melt: 0: 19: 4 August 11, 1973: Palisades, Michigan, USA
An experimental reactor called SL-1 (Stationary Low-Power Plant Number 1) was destroyed when a control rod was pulled too far out of the reactor, leading to a near-instantaneous prompt-critical power excursion and steam explosion. The reactor vessel jumped up 9 feet 1 inch (2.77 m). [62]
But the partial meltdown of TMI-2, the second reactor on the site, was the most serious nuclear accident in the history of U.S. commercial nuclear power. The reactor core overheated when its feed ...
The EBR-I produced 200 kW of electricity out of 1.4 MW of heat generated by the reactor. [8] The production of electricity at EBR-I is the first time that a reactor created in-house available electricity, and it is sometimes misreferred to as the first time that a nuclear reactor has ever created electricity, or powered a light bulb.
Called Hermes, Kairos Power's low-power demonstration reactor will show the company's capability to deliver low-cost nuclear heat and is scheduled to be operational in 2026, officials said.