ABB CE's turboTM fuel design-proven more robust relative to fretting
Creators
- 1. ABB Combustion Engineering, Windsor (United States)
Description
ABB CE has established an excellent track record of reliability for its current fuel designs and has developed the TurboTM fuel design to continue to maintain this excellent performance. The heart of the TurboTM fuel design is an advanced Zircaloy spacer grid with rod support features that make the grid more robust relative to grid-to-rod fretting. The author describes the dual bundle endurance test of the TurboTM design co resident with a standard design assembly. This endurance test was run in ABB CE's Test Facility 2 (TF-2) at reactor operating pressure and temperature, and mechanical design flow. The test results demonstrate the superior performance of the TurboTM design, indicating at least a factor of 14 reduction in the potential for grid-to-rod fretting
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of fifth international topical meeting on nuclear thermal hydraulics, operations and safety
- Imprint Pagination
- 1493 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. F1.1-F1.7
Conference
- Title
- 5. international topical meeting on nuclear thermal hydraulics, operations and safety
- Dates
- 14-18 Apr 1997
- Place
- Beijing (China)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- China
- Country of Input or Organization
- China
- INIS RN
- 29048784
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- DESIGN; FINS; FRICTION FACTOR; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; MIXING; PERFORMANCE TESTING; POST-IRRADIATION EXAMINATION; PRESSURE DROP; RELIABILITY; SPACERS; TEST FACILITIES
- Descriptors DEC
- TESTING