1982 Annual Status Report Plutonium Fuels and Actinide Programme
- 1. European Inst. for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe (Germany, F.R.)
Description
The programme of the Transuranium Institute has long included work on advanced fuels for fast breeder reactors. Study of the swelling of carbide and nitride fuels is now nearing completion, the retention of fission gases in bubbles of different sizes in the fuel having been quantified as function of burn-up and temperature. An important step forward has been achieved in the studies of the Equation of State of Nuclear Fuels up to 5000 K. Formation of some of the less abundant isotopes in PWR fuel has been determined experimentally. Aerosol formation during the fabrication of plutonium containing fuels, part of the activity Safe Handling of Plutonium Fuel has been studied. Head-End Processing of carbide fuels has continued experiments with high burn up mixed carbides. In the field of actinide research the preparation and characterisation of pure specimens is carried out. Effect of actinides on the properties of waste glasses is investigated
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- Imprint Pagination
- 8 p.
- Report number
- EUR--8520
INIS
- Country of Publication
- European Commission (EC), Brussels (Belgium)
- Country of Input or Organization
- European Commission (EC), Brussels (Belgium)
- INIS RN
- 21054182
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Progress Report
- Descriptors DEI
- FISSION PRODUCTS; MIXED CARBIDE FUELS; MIXED NITRIDE FUELS; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; PLUTONIUM CARBIDES; PLUTONIUM RECYCLE; PROGRESS REPORT; SWELLING
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; CARBIDES; CARBON COMPOUNDS; DEFORMATION; ENERGY SOURCES; FUEL CYCLE; FUELS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; REACTOR MATERIALS; SOLID FUELS; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS