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Westinghouse Electric Corporation {fled a final hazards summary report for the 20,000kilowatt testing reactor being constructed at Waltz Mill, Pennsylvania,
Research Reactors
Aerojet-General Nucleonics (AGN) was authorized to construct ten 15-watt pool-type re-
search reactors (Model AGN-211) at San Ramon, California, and to operate one of them. AGN
later applied for authority to increase the power level of three of these reactors to 100 watts.
The 100-watt reactors are to be redesignated as Mode] AGN-211P,
AGN was authorized to modify the control rods and use 780 grams of uranium 235 as
reactor fuel, in lieu of 1,000 grams originally estimated, for the 1-watt AGN-211 reactor
operating at San Ramon. AGN was also authorized to increase to 20 watts the operating level
of a 5-watt reactor (Model AGN-201M) at San Ramon.
The University of Delaware was licensed to acquire and operate an AGN-201 100-milliwatt
reactor on its campus at Newark, Delaware,
The Babcock & Wilcox Company was authorized to build and operate a 10-kilowatt pooltype research reactorat Lynchburg, Virginia.
Battelle Memorial Institute was authorized to make certain modifications in its research
reactor and changes in its operating procedures, and was issued a revised special nuclear
material transfer schedule.
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Curtiss-Wright Corporation was authorized to use an additional 200 grams of uranium 235
contained in fuel elements for its research reactor at Quehanna, Pennsylvania,
General Dynamics Corporation, San Diego, California, was authorized to conduct experl-~
ments in the TRIGA reactor relating to (1) neutron studies of nuclear cross sections and solid
state properties, (2) shielding studies of neutrons streaming through holes in a water shield,
and (3) a series of reactivity compensation experiments. ~
The General Electric Company advised that its 30-kilowatt reactor in Alameda County,
California, designated as the NTR, was shut down in mid-March pending repair and modification of the reactor and issuance of a revised Hcense to operate. With the consent of General
Electric Company, an order was issued on August 13 suspending operation of the reactor under
the existing license.
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A notice 2s published of the proposed issuance to Industrial Reactor Laboratories, Inc,
(IRL), of a license to operate its 5,000-kilowatt reactor at Plainsboro, New Jersey. IRL subsequently advised there would be a delay in completion of gas leakage tests and requested a
license, pending completion of these tests, to proceed with criticality and low power tests.
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A notice was published of the proposed issuance to Nuclear Development Corporation of
America of a construction permit and a license to operate at Pawling, New York, a heavy~
Iowa State College applied for a construction permit and license to operate a 10-kilowatt
Argonaut-type reactor (Model UTR-10) on its campus at Ames, Iowa, by the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation.
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The University of Michigan was authorized to operate the Ford Nuclear Reactor at power
levels up to 1,000 kilowatts, in lieu of the 100-kilowatt operation previously authorized.
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level of 5 watts and for short periods at power levels up to 100 watts.
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