1947 - Adaptation of High Temp Gas-Cooled Ceramics Pile

This paper (CL-FD-55) is by Farrington Daniels who was running the Daniels Pile Project at Oak Ridge and dated December 10, 1947 was in response to a Capt Rickover request for concept evaluation of applying a high-temperature gas cooled reactor for submarine applications. The paper is addressed to Harold Etherington who served first as section leader of the Gaseous Diffusion Plant In Oak Ridge and then became director of the Power Pile Division. From 1948 to 1953, as director of the Naval Reactors Division at Argonne National Laboratory, he made major contributions to the early basic reactor design for the United States Navy's first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus.

This digital copy is courtesy of Theodore Rockwell Papers (MSS Rockwell), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon - Series 9 File CL-FD-55(small).pdf. The file was originally classified as SECRET but was declassified and made available to Oregon State University.

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