Series of boiling water nuclear reactors safety experiments
"BORAX" redirects here. For the mineral, see borax.
A cutaway view of the BORAX-V facility.BORAX III steam turbine and generator.
The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on boiling water nuclear reactors conducted by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho.[1] They were performed using the five BORAX reactors that were designed and built by Argonne.[2] BORAX-III was the first nuclear reactor to supply electrical power to the grid in the United States in 1955.
^Light Water Reactor Technology Development, Argonne National Laboratory
^USAEC Division of Technical Information (1970). ANL-175 – Nuclear Reactors Built, Being Built, or Planned in the United States as of June 30, 1970 TID-8200 (22nd Rev.) (PDF) (Report).
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the borate minerals. These are mined industrially as evaporites, such as borax and kernite. The largest known deposits are in Turkey, the largest producer...
neutrons, causing the power level inside the reactor to lower. The BORAXexperiments and the SL-1 meltdown accident proved this principle. A reactor design...
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mouth in unconscious patients. It comprises 88% glycerin and 12% borax. Finely ground borax is dissolved in glycerin, and the solution is ready for use (Ref...
contained borax, the search led John Allen Veatch to nearby Borax Lake where the California Borax Company established the first commercial borax mining operation...
violin makers applied varnishes to their instruments. Potassium borate (borax) may have been used to protect against woodworm. Sodium and potassium silicate...
Argonne National Laboratory. Retrieved 3 May 2012. "BORAX-I (Boiling Water Reactor Experiment No. 1)". Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory...
it is produced from inorganic borates, including borosilicate glass and borax (Na2B4O7): Na2B4O7 + 16 Na + 8 H2 + 7 SiO2 → 4 NaBH4 + 7 Na2SiO3 Magnesium...
1970. Boron was known to the ancient Egyptians, but only in the mineral borax. The metalloid element was not known in its pure form until 1808, when Humphry...
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