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Baldwin, N.L.; Foushee, F.C.; Greenwood, J.S.
7. biennial U.S. TRIGA users' conference. Papers and abstracts1980
7. biennial U.S. TRIGA users' conference. Papers and abstracts1980
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[en] Due to present international concerns over nuclear proliferation, TRIGA reactor fuels will utilize only low-enriched uranium (LEU) (enrichment <20%). This requires increased total uranium loading per unit volume of fuel in order to maintain the appropriate fissile loading. Tests were conducted to determine the fractional release of gaseous and metallic fission products from typical uranium-zirconium hydride TRIGA fuels containing up to 45 wt-% uranium. These tests, performed in late 1977 and early 1978, were similar to those conducted earlier on TRIGA fuels with 8.5 wt-% U. Fission gas release measurements were made on prototypic specimens from room temperature to 1100 deg. C in the TRIGA King Furnace Facility. The fuel specimens were irradiated in the TRIGA reactor at a low power level. The fractional releases of the gaseous nuclides of krypton and xenon were measured under steady-state operating conditions. Clean helium was used to sweep the fission gases released during irradiation from the furnace into a standard gas collection trap for gamma counting. The results of these tests on TRIGA-LEU fuel agree well with data from the similar, earlier tests on TRIGA fuel. The correlation used to calculate the release of fission products from 8.5 wt-% U TRIGA fuel applies equally well for U contents up to 45 wt-%. (author)
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General Atomic Co., San Diego, CA (United States); 369 p; 1980; p. 2.62-2.90; 7. biennial U.S. TRIGA users' conference; San Diego, CA (United States); 2-5 Mar 1980; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Abstract on p. xxii; 7 refs, 6 figs, 6 tabs
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ACTINIDES, ELEMENTS, ENERGY SOURCES, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, FLUIDS, FUELS, GASES, HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS, HYDRIDE MODERATED REACTORS, HYDRIDES, HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS, ISOTOPE ENRICHED MATERIALS, ISOTOPES, MATERIALS, METALS, NONMETALS, NUCLEAR REACTIONS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RARE GASES, REACTOR MATERIALS, REACTORS, RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS, SOLID HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS, TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS, URANIUM, WATER COOLED REACTORS, WATER MODERATED REACTORS, ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS
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