Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) Fuel-Performance Test Facility (FPTF)

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6488342

Pardini, J A; Brubaker, R C; Veith, D J; Giorgis, G C; Walker, D E; Seim, O S

The Fuel-Performance Test Facility (FPTF) is the latest in a series of special EBR-II instrumented in-core test facilities. A flow control valve in the facility is programmed to vary the coolant flow, and thus the temperature, in an experimental-irradiation subassembly beneath it and coupled to it. In this way, thermal transients can be simulated in that subassembly without changing the temperatures in surrounding subassemblies. The FPTF also monitors sodium flow and temperature, and detects delayed neutrons in the sodium effluent from the experimental-irradiation subassembly beneath it. This facility also has an acoustical detector (high-temperature microphone) for detecting sodium boiling.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6488342
• Report Number(s): CONF-820406-25; ON: DE83007825
• Resource Relation: Conference: Topical meeting on fast, thermal and fusion reactor experiments, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 12 Apr 1982
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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