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Project 19.2 ~ RATS - LewAllen, Jr.
The purpose of the experiment was to investigate certain
feature of the proposal knowns as BATS which had been described in
Los Alamos T~Division Report, T-793.
Nine spheres were hung from
booms at the 250 ft. level of nelERED:-2) tower,
These spheres
consisted of a graphite layer, 2 ft. in outer diameter which enclosed
a steel ball, 8 inches in outer diameter, at the center of which was
@ sphere consisting cf a sample of the blanket material 2 inches in
diameter.
The sample consisted of graphite containing 116 in amount
equivalent to about TiC. 4o°
In addition 235 was added in concen-
tration which varied from sample to sample such that the most concentrated sample contained y235 in amount equivalent to about Wsoo°
It was expected that the steel spheres could be recovered after
the shot whereupon en analysis of the sample it contained would reveal valuable information regarding the production of tritium under
the conditions of high neutron flux, low tritium concentration, and
the high temperature caused by energy released from the p75 in the
sample,
shot.
An initial recovery attempt wes made one month after the
Due to the high radiation levels still present only one sphere
was recovered, this one was returned to Los Alamos for disassembly
and analysis.
It is anticipated that the remaining spheres can be
recovered on about plus two months,
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