Published August 1980 | Version v1
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LMFBR operational and experimental local-fault experience, primarily with oxide fuel elements

Creators

  • 1. Argonne Natl Lab, Ill

Description

Case-by-case reviews of selective world experience with severe local faults, particularly fuel failure and fuel degradation, are reviewed for two sodium-cooled thermal reactors, several LMFBRs, and LMFBR-fuels experiments. The review summarizes fuel-failure frequency and ilustrates the results of the most damaging LMFBR local-fault experiences of the last 20 years. Local-fault accommodation is demonstrated and a need to more thoroughly investigate delayed-neutron and gaseous-fission-product signals is highlighted in view of uranate formation, observed blockages, and slow fuel-element failure-propagation. 32 refs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., [Pap.]
Journal Issue
80-c2/ne-21
Series
Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., [Pap.].
ISSN
0402-1215

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
12642350
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Descriptors DEI
BOR-60 REACTOR; BR-2 REACTOR; DFR REACTOR; EBR-2 REACTOR; ENRICO FERMI-1 REACTOR; FUEL ELEMENT FAILURE; KNK REACTOR; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; RAPSODIE REACTOR; SBR-5 REACTOR; TREAT REACTOR
Descriptors DEC
ACCIDENTS; AIR COOLED REACTORS; BREEDER REACTORS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; HYDRIDE MODERATED REACTORS; IRRADIATION REACTORS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; MATERIALS TESTING REACTORS; PLUTONIUM REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SODIUM COOLED REACTORS; SOLID HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; SZR TYPE REACTORS; TANK TYPE REACTORS; TEST REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS