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Title: DDE-MITR Status Report of Conceptual Design Activities

Abstract

The Design Demonstration Experiment for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (DDE-MITR) is intended to facilitate Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) conversion of the MITR by demonstrating the performance and fabrication of the LEU fuel element design through an irradiation test in the Advanced Test Reactor center flux trap. At the time this report was prepared the resources for furthering DDE design work were expected to be postponed. As such, the conceptual design effort to date is summarized herein in order to provide the status of key objectives, notable results, and provisions for future design work. These demonstrate that the DDE-MITR design effort is well on the path to producing a suitable irradiation experiment, but also exhibits several challenges for which timely resolution is recommend in order to facilitate success of the irradiation campaign and ultimate conversion of the MITR.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE - NA
OSTI Identifier:
1058074
Report Number(s):
INL/EXT-12-27077
TRN: US1300065
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; DDE; LEU; RERTR

Citation Formats

Woolstenhulme, N E, Nielson, R B, Wiest, J D, Nielsen, J W, Roth, G A, and Snow, S D. DDE-MITR Status Report of Conceptual Design Activities. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.2172/1058074.
Woolstenhulme, N E, Nielson, R B, Wiest, J D, Nielsen, J W, Roth, G A, & Snow, S D. DDE-MITR Status Report of Conceptual Design Activities. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1058074
Woolstenhulme, N E, Nielson, R B, Wiest, J D, Nielsen, J W, Roth, G A, and Snow, S D. 2012. "DDE-MITR Status Report of Conceptual Design Activities". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1058074. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1058074.
@article{osti_1058074,
title = {DDE-MITR Status Report of Conceptual Design Activities},
author = {Woolstenhulme, N E and Nielson, R B and Wiest, J D and Nielsen, J W and Roth, G A and Snow, S D},
abstractNote = {The Design Demonstration Experiment for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (DDE-MITR) is intended to facilitate Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) conversion of the MITR by demonstrating the performance and fabrication of the LEU fuel element design through an irradiation test in the Advanced Test Reactor center flux trap. At the time this report was prepared the resources for furthering DDE design work were expected to be postponed. As such, the conceptual design effort to date is summarized herein in order to provide the status of key objectives, notable results, and provisions for future design work. These demonstrate that the DDE-MITR design effort is well on the path to producing a suitable irradiation experiment, but also exhibits several challenges for which timely resolution is recommend in order to facilitate success of the irradiation campaign and ultimate conversion of the MITR.},
doi = {10.2172/1058074},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1058074}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}