Published 2009
| Version v1
Report
Designing a thorium fuel irradiation experiment
Description
Full text: A Norwegian company, Thor Energy, has been planning an irradiation experiment in which a thorium-plutonium oxide fuel will be tested in the Halden reactor in Norway. As part of this project a set of specifications has been prepared to govern the manufacture of the test batch of thorium-plutonium oxide fuel pellets. Composition, microstructural and shaping parameters were considered carefully - as outlined in this paper. Establishing specifications for the fuel ceramic stoichiometry and for certain impurity limits proved to be of specific importance for the thorium-plutonium test pellets. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Technical meeting on advanced fuel pellet materials and fuel rod designs for water cooled reactors. Book of abstracts
- Imprint Pagination
- 23 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 19
- Report number
- INIS-XA--1074
Conference
- Title
- Technical meeting on advanced fuel pellet materials and fuel rod designs for water cooled reactors
- Dates
- 23-26 Nov 2009
- Place
- Villigen (Switzerland)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41011870
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CERAMICS; FUEL PELLETS; IRRADIATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM OXIDES; SPECIFICATIONS; STOICHIOMETRY; THORIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDES; CHALCOGENIDES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; MATERIALS; METALS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PELLETS; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; REACTOR MATERIALS; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
Optional Information
- Notes
- PDF page numbering used as pagination