Control rod materials and burnable poisons: an evaluation of the state of the art and needs for technology development, July 1980. Final report
Description
This study was made for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to determine areas of technology that need further research and development in order to resolve any current problems related to the use of control rod and burnable poison materials, to define their performance limits more accurately, and to develop new designs and alternate materials that will be of economic benefit to utilities. To this end, the S.M. Stoller Corporation (SMSC) reviewed the technology of the materials, including the designs and design criteria of the components, their fabrication and quality control, their properties and in-reactor behavior, their commercial service experience and particularly the problems experienced and the resolutions applied. Additional reviews included an evaluation of potential computer codes that could be used to model control and burnable poison elements, and a survey of available clad material properties
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A12/MF A01 as DE82901318.
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- PWR; BWR
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 265 p.
- Report number
- EPRI-NP--1974
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 13678391
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALUMINIUM OXIDES; BORON CARBIDES; BORON SILICATES; BURNABLE POISONS; BWR TYPE REACTORS; CADMIUM ALLOYS; COMPATIBILITY; CONTROL ELEMENTS; GADOLINIUM OXIDES; INDIUM ALLOYS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PERFORMANCE; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR OPERATION; SILVER ALLOYS; SPECIFICATIONS; URANIUM DIOXIDE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ALLOYS; ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS; BORON COMPOUNDS; CARBIDES; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CHALCOGENIDES; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; NEUTRON ABSORBERS; NUCLEAR POISONS; OPERATION; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; SILICATES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENT ALLOYS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM OXIDES; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS