Published September 1994 | Version v1
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Interim report on the post irradiation examination of capsules 2 and 3 of the HFR-B1 experiment

  • 1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
  • 2. Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (Germany)

Description

This is an interim report on the post irradiation examination (PIE) of capsules 2 and 3 of the HFR-B1 experiment The PIE has been conducted by the Forschungszentrum Juelich and is nearing completion. After disassembly of the capsules, the examination focused on capsule components including fuel compacts, inert compacts fired in different media, graphite cylinders of different grades, unbonded coated fuel particles and unfueled graphite; in addition, heating experiments with intermittent injections of water vapor were conducted using fuel compacts and the kernels of uranium oxycarbide. Measurement involved gamma scanning and counting, photography, metallography, dimensional and weight changes, burnup determination and fission product release

Availability note (English)

MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Also available from OSTI as DE95002373; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
198 p.
Report number
ORNL/M--3768

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC05-84OR21400
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).