Lietzke, A. F., Nagey, T. F.
naca-rm-e51e25
1951
Thermal distortion tests were made on a stainless steel clad, cadmium-silver control rod furnished by the Argonne National Laboratory. Two temperature patterns supplied by the Argonne National Laboratory were simulated in these tests; one represented the shim-rod-out condition and the other the shim-rod-50-percent-inserted condition. The greatest reduction in clearance effected by thermal distortion was 0.076 inch. No permanent set of the control rod was observed after repeated heating and cooling cycles.
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