Review Paper: Review of Instrumentation for Irradiation Testing of Nuclear Fuels and Materials

Journal Article · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Nuclear Technology

OSTI ID:1027876

Kim, Bong Goo; Rempe, Joy L; Villard, Jean-François; Solstadd, Steinar

Over 50 years of nuclear fuels and materials irradiation testing has led to many countries developing significant improvements in instrumentation to monitor physical parameters and to control the test conditions in material test reactors (MTRs). Recently, there is increased interest to irradiate new materials and reactor fuels for advanced pressurized water reactors and Gen-IV reactor systems, such as sodium-cooled fast reactors, very high temperature reactors, supercritical water-cooled reactors, and gas-cooled fast reactors. This review paper documents the current state of instrumentation technologies in MTRs in the world and summarizes ongoing research efforts to deploy new sensors. As described in this paper, a wide range of sensors is available to measure key parameters of interest during fuels and materials irradiations in MTRs. Ongoing development efforts focus on providing MTR users a wider range of parameter measurements with smaller, higher accuracy sensors.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1027876
• Report Number(s): INL/JOU-10-19367; NUTYBB; TRN: US1105286
• Journal Information: Nuclear Technology, Vol. 176, Issue 2; ISSN 0029-5450
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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