Research and development of nitride fuel cycle technology in Europe
Creators
- 1. Dept. of Nuclear and Reactor Physics, Royal Inst. of Technology (KTH), AlbaNova Univ. Centre, Stockholm (Sweden)
Description
Research and development on nitride fuels for minor actinide burning in accelerator driven systems is performed in Europe in context of the CONFIRM project. Dry and wet methods for fabrication of uranium free nitride fuels have been developed with the assistance of thermo-chemical modelling. Four (Pu, Zr) pins have been fabricated by PSI and will be irradiated in Studsvik at a rating of 40-50 kW/m. The thermal conductivity of (Pu, Zr)N has been measured and was found to be in agreement with earlier theoretical assessments. Safety modeling indicates that americium bearing nitride fuels, in spite of their relatively poor high temperature stability under atmospheric pressure, can survive power transients as long as the fuel cladding remains intact. (author)
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the symposium on nitride fuel cycle technology
- Imprint Pagination
- 154 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 15-23
- Report number
- JAERI-Conf--2004-015
Conference
- Title
- Symposium on nitride fuel cycle technology
- Dates
- 28 Jul 2004
- Place
- Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 36058806
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATOR DRIVEN TRANSMUTATION; AMERICIUM; BURNUP; FUEL CYCLE; FUEL PINS; GCFR TYPE REACTORS; MIXED NITRIDE FUELS; PELLETIZING; PLUTONIUM NITRIDES; R-2 REACTOR; SOL-GEL PROCESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ZIRCONIUM NITRIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDES; BREEDER REACTORS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FABRICATION; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENTS; FUELS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; IRRADIATION REACTORS; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING REACTORS; METALS; MOLDING; NITRIDES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; PNICTIDES; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SOLID FUELS; TANK TYPE REACTORS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; TRANSMUTATION; TRANSPLUTONIUM ELEMENTS; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 9 refs., 4 figs., 1 tab.