Beverage mug made with NPD calandria and pressure tube fuel channel components

Artifact Number:

2018-144

Description

A stylized “beer-mug” with the main body manufactured of spare, NPD, aluminum (6061?) alloy, calandria tubing with a 3 cm long zircaloy-2 segment of pressure tube for a base.  The item was manufactured by the NPD Reactor Maintenance Team to commemorate the successful removal of the experimental pressure tubes C8, K5 and H8 (Zr-4; Zr-2.5 Nb) from the channels in 1988 after the permanent shutdown of the reactor in 1987.  The mug is 17 cm tall and the top covers a 7 cm diameter opening.

Details

Keywords:
npd reactor; natural uranium reactor; reactor channels; beverage vessel
Date:
1988
Associated artifacts:
See artifacts 2018-138 to 2018-143.
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