Radiation Effect on Microstructural Stability of RERTR Fuel

Conference · Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2008

OSTI ID:927630

Gan, J; Keiser, Jr, D D; Miller, B D; Allen, T R; Wachs, D M

Three depleted uranium alloys are successfully cast for the radiation stability studies of the fuel-cladding interaction product using proton irradiation. SEM analysis indicates the presence of the phases of interest: U(Si,Al)3, (U,Mo)(Si,Al)3 and a mixture of UMo2Al20, U6Mo4Al43, and UAl4. Irradiation with 2.6 MeV protons at 200ºC to the doses of 0.1, 1.0 and 3.0 dpa are carried out.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC07-99ID-13727
• OSTI ID: 927630
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-08-13804; TRN: US0804803
• Resource Relation: Conference: 12th Annual Topical Meeting on Research Reactor Fuel Management (RRFM),Hamburg, Germany,03/02/2008,03/05/2008
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
ALLOYS
DEPLETED URANIUM
FUEL MANAGEMENT
FUEL-CLADDING INTERACTIONS
IRRADIATION
MIXTURES
PROTONS
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATIONS
RESEARCH REACTORS
STABILITY
HEU
LEU
microstructural phases
proton irradiation
research reactor
uranium alloy