Large Scale Sodium Fire Suppression Test, 1983
1983-05-11 film, with transcript
Catalog description: This is footage from the Large-Scale Sodium Fire Suppression Test performed on May 11, 1983 at the Rockwell International Sodium Fire Test Facility at Santa Susana, CA in support of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project (CRBRP). At the time, this was the largest sodium test ever conducted. Also contains NARA ID 7480000
This is film 7479945 in our catalog.
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| 00:00 | You're now looking from the northerly direction into the test cell. |
| 00:30 | T0 has just occurred, will be approximately in a minute or so. |
| 00:33 | There's a little bit of sodium that you can see plopping down on the floor. |
| 00:37 | We should get full flow within a minute. |
| 01:00 | Good sodium flow on the videotape. |
| 01:23 | Tank pressure at 6.6. |
| 01:29 | Sodium flow still looks good. |
| 01:45 | All systems still look good. |
| 01:49 | Oxygen hold net 21%, hydrogen at zero point. |
| 01:59 | All systems still look good. |
| 02:12 | Oxygen is still at 21%. |
| 02:15 | No hydrogen. |
| 02:28 | Starting to come into control room. |