The ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor and New Advanced Fuel Testing Capabilities
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Energy s High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was originally designed (in the 1960s) primarily as a part of the overall program to produce transuranic isotopes for use in the heavy-element research program of the United States. Today, the reactor is a highly versatile machine, producing medical and transuranic isotopes and performing materials test experimental irradiations and neutron-scattering experiments. The ability to test advanced fuels and cladding materials in a thermal neutron spectrum in the United States is limited, and a fast-spectrum irradiation facility does not currently exist in this country. The HFIR has a distinct advantage for consideration as a fuel/cladding irradiation facility because of the extremely high neutron fluxes that this reactor provides over the full thermal- to fast-neutron energy range. New test capabilities have been developed that will allow testing of advanced nuclear fuels and cladding materials in the HFIR under prototypic light-water reactor (LWR) and fast-reactor (FR) operating conditions.
- Authors:
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- ORNL
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Work for Others (WFO)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1031002
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: European Research Reactor Conference 2011 (RRFM), Rome, Italy, 20110320, 20110324
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; ENERGY RANGE; HFIR REACTOR; IRRADIATION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR FUELS; ORNL; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RESEARCH REACTORS; TESTING; THERMAL NEUTRONS; High Flux Isotope Advanced Fuel Testing Capabilities
Citation Formats
Ott, Larry J, and McDuffee, Joel Lee. The ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor and New Advanced Fuel Testing Capabilities. United States: N. p., 2011.
Web.
Ott, Larry J, & McDuffee, Joel Lee. The ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor and New Advanced Fuel Testing Capabilities. United States.
Ott, Larry J, and McDuffee, Joel Lee. 2011.
"The ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor and New Advanced Fuel Testing Capabilities". United States.
@article{osti_1031002,
title = {The ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor and New Advanced Fuel Testing Capabilities},
author = {Ott, Larry J and McDuffee, Joel Lee},
abstractNote = {The U.S. Department of Energy s High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was originally designed (in the 1960s) primarily as a part of the overall program to produce transuranic isotopes for use in the heavy-element research program of the United States. Today, the reactor is a highly versatile machine, producing medical and transuranic isotopes and performing materials test experimental irradiations and neutron-scattering experiments. The ability to test advanced fuels and cladding materials in a thermal neutron spectrum in the United States is limited, and a fast-spectrum irradiation facility does not currently exist in this country. The HFIR has a distinct advantage for consideration as a fuel/cladding irradiation facility because of the extremely high neutron fluxes that this reactor provides over the full thermal- to fast-neutron energy range. New test capabilities have been developed that will allow testing of advanced nuclear fuels and cladding materials in the HFIR under prototypic light-water reactor (LWR) and fast-reactor (FR) operating conditions.},
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year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011},
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