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Status of LEU conversion program at CRNL
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After briefly reviewing the salient features of the NRU Reactor at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (CRNL), the progress of our LEU fuel development and testing program is described. The results (to date) of full-size prototype fuel-rod irradiations are reviewed, and the status of the new fuel-fabrication facility on the site is updated. Although development work is proceeding on U3Si2 dispersions, all indications so far are that CRNL's U3Si fuel is fully acceptable for reactor operation. Fuel rods from the new fabrication shop will be installed in NRU in 1990, and the complete core conversion of NRU to LEU driver fuel is expected by 1991. (orig.)
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Publishing Information
- ISBN
- 3-89336-063-8
- Imprint Title
- Reduced enrichment for research and test reactors. Proceedings
- Imprint Pagination
- 597 p.
- Journal Volume
- 4
- Series
- Konferenzen des Forschungszentrums Juelich
- Journal Page Range
- p. 13-20
- ISSN
- 0938-6521
- Report number
- INIS-DE--0103
Conference
- Title
- 12. international meeting on reduced enrichment for research and test reactors (RERTR-12)
- Dates
- 10-14 Sep 1989
- Place
- Berlin (Germany)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 35085631
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- FABRICATION; FUEL RODS; MODERATELY ENRICHED URANIUM; MODIFICATIONS; NRU REACTOR; URANIUM SILICIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDES; ELEMENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEAVY WATER COOLED REACTORS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; IRRADIATION REACTORS; ISOTOPE ENRICHED MATERIALS; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION REACTORS; MATERIALS; METALS; NATURAL URANIUM REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SILICIDES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TANK TYPE REACTORS; TEST FACILITIES; TEST REACTORS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS