At a September meeting at Los Alamos the future requirements for
Li-6 had been raised, and a new plant would be constructed to meet the
increased needs,
The Colex process had been chosen as the one most
likely to meet. scheduler. |
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Irn schedule for the new plant is:
first operational phase, April 1955; final, October 1955,
The new plant
will cost about $70 million, including $13 million for mercury; the Elex |
cost was $45 million,
to’ about $3/gran.
The operating cost of the new plant will amount
The new plant will probably not meet future requireey
ments completely; additional capacity of :
depending on the isotopic concentration.
after the Castle tests.
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This question will be considere
Orex may be of some promise for the third ADP
plant, but Colex looks better at present.
A new boron-10 plant is being built at the Lake Ontario Storage
Boron-10
works.
It will cost $1.5 million and produce 250 kg B-l0/year.
Operatic
is expected in the first part of 1955.
Current thinking about power levels at the reactor sites is
Reactor
Power
Levels
optimistic.
The optimistic expectations are now for 8000 MW at Savannah
River and 12,500 MW at Hanford.
These are not yet assured,
The Savannah River figure assumes success with the flat plate fuel
elexent development.
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