Published 2004 | Version v1
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A study on the fabrication of dry recycling nuclear fuel pellets by using simulated spent PWR fuel of high burnup

  • 1. KAERI, Taejon (Korea, Republic of)

Description

To study the fabrication characteristics of dry recycling nuclear fuel using spent PWR fuel with high burnup of 60,000 MWd/tU, the fission products of spent PWR fuel was analyzed by ORIGEN-2 code. Simulated spent PWR fuel pellets were fabricated by using UO2 powder added by the simulated fission products. The simulated dry-recycling-fuel pellets were fabricated by dry recycling fuel fabrication flow including 3 cycle treated OREOX(Oxidation and REduction of OXide fuel) process. As the results of experiments, the densities of sintered pellets ranged from 95 % to 98 % of theoretical density at 1700 .deg. C and 1750 .deg. C of sintering temperature. The grain size of the pellets ranged from 5 to 6 μm

Part of:
Proceedings of the KNS spring meeting

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
KNS
Imprint Place
Taejon (Korea, Republic of)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the KNS spring meeting
Imprint Pagination
[CD-ROM]
Journal Page Range
[7 p.]

Conference

Title
2004 spring meeting of the KNS
Dates
27-28 May 2004
Place
Gyeongju (Korea, Republic of)

INIS

Country of Publication
Korea, Republic of
Country of Input or Organization
Korea, Republic of
INIS RN
35100626
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BURNUP; FABRICATION; FISSION PRODUCTS; FUEL PELLETS; GRAIN SIZE; NUCLEAR FUELS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RECYCLING; SPENT FUELS
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY SOURCES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUELS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEAR FUELS; PELLETS; POWER REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; SIZE; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

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Notes
5 refs, 3 figs, 4 tabs