In-reactor performance of commercially-produced fast reactor fuel pins
Description
A description is presented of a series of irradiation tests conducted in the General Electric Test Reactor (GETR) to compare the in-reactor performance of vendor-produced fuel pins to that of HEDL-produced fuel pins. The capsules were irradiated in pairs which included one vendor-produced fuel pin and one similar HEDL-produced pin operating under nearly identical conditions so that direct comparisons of performance characteristics could be made. Extensive postirradiation examinations of two irradiated pins revealed no significant differences in behavior. This conclusion is based on direct comparisons of visual observations, neutron radiographs, fuel pin profilometry data, longitudinal gamma scans, gas release measurements, and metallography and autoradiography of the fuel and cladding
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 49 p.
- Report number
- HEDL-SA--980
Conference
- Title
- Joint meeting of the American Nuclear Society and the Atomic Industrial Forum.
- Dates
- 16 Nov 1975.
- Place
- San Francisco, California, USA.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 7269150
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BURNUP; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; FUEL PINS; IRRADIATION; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; PERFORMANCE TESTING
- Descriptors DEC
- BREEDER REACTORS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENTS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; TESTING
Optional Information
- Notes
- Available from NTIS. $4.00.
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-751101--86.