부산대학교 도서관

As part of the SP-100 test program at the US Department of Energy Field Office, Richland, there are plans to test the SP-100 space reactor in a vacuum in the test facility shown in Figure 1. The vacuum vessel will be in an inert gas atmosphere in the reactor experiment (RX) cell. The upper assembly (UA)/pump cells will also be inerted. The objective is to determine whether the radioactivity levels in the facility exhaust are within permissible levels. This radioactivity comes from leakage of activation products from the inert gas cells into the facility ventilation exhaust stream. The specific activities were calculated for the activation products from the combinations of inert gases that were considered for this facility, for a range of leakage rates, and for leakage from the UA/pump cells into the RX cell, and results are detailed in this report.