Development of high loading fuel at BATAN
Creators
- 1. Nuclear Fuel Element Centre, National Atomic Energy Agency, Serpong (Indonesia)
Description
BATAN continues the experimental fabrication and testing of uranium silicide (U3Si2-Al) fuel with an emphasis to achieve capability to produce high-load up to 5.2 gU/cm3 with a good production reliability. The latest activities include optimization of U3Si2 fuel preparation, fuel plate preparation and quality tests for immediate irradiation test programme in the RSG-GAS core followed by the post irradiation examinations. It can be reported that by slight modification of production parameters the high-load fuel plates of 5.2 gU/cm3 meeting a quality requirements have been prepared without any production problems. These plates have very good quality showing no blisters, white points and serious dogboning problems. The sectional views of fuel plates reveal that fuel areal distribution and fuel to matrix ratio at high loading remains excellent, indicating a possible additional loading. (author)
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors. Proceedings of the XVIII international meeting
- Imprint Pagination
- 557 p.
- Journal Page Range
- [8 p.]
- Report number
- INIS-XA-C--005
Conference
- Title
- 18. international meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors
- Dates
- 17-21 Sep 1995
- Place
- Paris (France)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35044398
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BLISTERS; BURNUP; FABRICATION; FUEL PLATES; GA SIWABESSY REACTOR; PERFORMANCE TESTING; QUALITY CONTROL; REACTOR CORES; SWELLING; URANIUM SILICIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; CONTROL; DEFORMATION; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENTS; IRRADIATION REACTORS; MATERIALS TESTING REACTORS; POOL TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SILICIDES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TESTING; THERMAL REACTORS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 10 refs, 3 figs, 1 tab