Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor LEU Fuel Element Flow Test Preliminary Design
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
As part of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) mission to minimize the civilian use of weapon-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuels, the NNSA Office of Material Management and Minimization Conversion Program is collaborating with six U.S. High Performance Research Reactors (USHPRR), including one critical facility, to convert from the use of HEU to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The conversion objectives for the USHPRR are to develop LEU fuel element designs that will ensure safe reactor operations and maintain the existing experimental facilities performance. The work is being conducted through many interrelated activities that are being completed by stakeholders across organizations. Within the Reactor Conversion (RC) Pillar of the USHPRR Project, four of the USHPRR, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR-II, also referred to as MITR), have progressed through preliminary fuel element design using the proposed monolithic alloy of uranium- 10 wt% molybdenum (U-10Mo). Preliminary fuel element design and safety analyses have been completed for MITR. This work has relied on preliminary data for properties, performance, and fabrication tolerances for the fuel systems that have been produced by the Fuel Qualification (FQ), Fuel Fabrication (FF), and RC Pillars of the USHPRR Project.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 2006671
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/RTR/TM-23/18; 184738; TRN: US2404776
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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