Facility for zero power experiments

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Facility for zero power experiments
Plant for zero power experiments (Schleswig-Holstein)
Facility for zero power experiments
Coordinates 53 ° 24 '16 "  N , 10 ° 25' 35"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '16 "  N , 10 ° 25' 35"  E
country Germany
Data
operator GKSS research center
Installation May 1964
Shutdown 5th February 1975
Shutdown January 1980
Reactor type critical arrangement
Thermal performance 100 watts
Neutron flux density 2 × 10 8  n / (cm 2 s)
was standing February 8, 2009

The facility for zero power experiments ( ANEX ) was a research reactor that was operated from 1964 to 1975 on the premises of the GKSS research center in Geesthacht . The zero power reactor with an output of 100  watts was used exclusively for research purposes.

history

The facility for zero power experiments was commissioned in May 1964 as the last of the three nuclear reactors at the GKSS research center. The research reactor FRG-1 had gone into operation six years earlier ; the year before, the research reactor FRG-2 had been added.

The system was a critical arrangement with a maximum thermal output of 100 watts. The maximum thermal neutron flux was 2 × 10 8 n / cm 2 s. The reactor was initially used for preliminary tests of fuel elements that were to be used in the reactor of the nuclear ship Otto Hahn . In later years tests on fuel rod assemblies in other reactor systems were carried out on him .

After eleven years of operation, the research reactor was shut down again on February 5, 1975. Immediately after the shutdown, the reactor was dismantled and all radioactive material removed. The permit for decommissioning was granted on March 19, 1979, and the decommissioning itself took place in January 1980.

See also

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  1. ^ A b Nuclear Research Reactors in the World , International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA
  2. ↑ From nuclear energy propulsion to neutron scattering for science (PDF; 919 kB), brochure on the 50th anniversary of the GKSS research center
  3. ↑ List of nuclear facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Office for Radiation Protection, November 2013