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�) RESEARCH IN REACTOR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION <br />Reactor Safety <br />During 1955, a series of tests was initiated to <br />determine the safe operating limits of reactors of various <br />classes and to investigate the mechanisms that contribute <br />to inherent reactor safety. Data on heterogeneous reactors <br />is being developed as part of the Special Power Excursion <br />1 Reactor Tests (SPERT) by the Phillips Petroleum Company at <br />the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho. Power <br />transient tests on small homogeneous reactors, Kinetic <br />Experiments on Water Boiler reactors (KEWB) are being con- <br />ducted by North American Aviation, Inc., at Santa Susana, <br />(� California. <br />Reactor safety experiments which can be carried out <br />without the use of a nuclear reactor are termed out-of- <br />pile tests. Out -of -pile tests are now being carried on <br />as follows: <br />North American Aviation Inc. is conducting a <br />fuse development program in order to design simple <br />safety mechanisms which can b-e built into a re- <br />actor to protect it against power surges. <br />The Aerojet General Corporation is measuring <br />the energy release of the possible reaction of <br />29 <br />