Determination of mechanical properties of silicon carbide pyrolytically deposited on fuel particles

Automatic translation: With the development of high-temperature reactors, efforts are being made to improve the efficiency of nuclear power plants compared compared to conventional plants. For these reactors characteristic of these reactors is that, due to the high coolant temperatures (800 - 1000°C), graphite is used as the cladding material for the fuel elements and for lining the reactor core and helium as a coolant. coolant is used. The fuel - a refractory oxide or oxide or carbide of uranium or thorium or both - is contained is in the form of small coated spherical particles, so-called spherical particles, so-called ''coated particles'' in the fuel elements made of artificial graphite.