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Title: PROCESS OF MAKING SHAPED FUEL FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS

Patent ·
OSTI ID:4103237

A process for making uranium dioxide fuel of great strength, density, and thermal conductivity by mixing it with 0.1 to 1% of a densifier oxide (tin, aluminum, zirconium, ferric, zinc, chromium, molybdenum, titanium, or niobium oxide) and with a plasticizer (0.5 to 3% of bentonite and 0.05 to 2% of methylcellulose, propylene glycol alginate, or ammonium alginate), compacting the mixture obtained, and sintering the bodies in an atmosphere of carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide, with or without hydrogen, or of a nitrogen-hydrogen mixture is described. (AEC)

Research Organization:
Originating Research Org. not identified
NSA Number:
NSA-18-010516
Assignee:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Patent Number(s):
US 3121128
OSTI ID:
4103237
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-64
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English