Behavior of mixed-oxide fuel elements during an overpower transient
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Materials and Components Technology Div.
- Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC), Japan
For reliable operation of a fast breeder reactor, the fuel elements must be resistant to breaching in slow-ramp, operational overpower transients. To determine this resistance capability of mixed-oxide fuel elements, extended overpower transient tests over a range of element design and operating conditions are being conducted in the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II). These tests are a part of a collaborative Operational Reliability Testing (ORT) program between the US Department of Energy and the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. (PNC) of Japan. The Phase 1 portion of the program was successfully completed in 1990; the Phase 2 program is currently in progress. Four extended overpower transient tests were conducted in the Phase-1 ORT program. The results of the first three tests, TOPI-1A, -1B and -1C, using existing preirradiated mixed-oxide fuel elements from the US breeder development program. have been reported. The results of the fourth test, TOPI-1D, using fuel elements specifically designed and fabricated for the ORT program, are the subject of this paper.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Materials and Components Technology Div.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10110244
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/MCT/CP-76422; CONF-921102-37; ON: DE93004181
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Joint American Nuclear Society/European Nuclear Society (ANS/ENS) international meeting on fifty years of controlled nuclear chain reaction: past, present, and future,Chicago, IL (United States),15-20 Nov 1992; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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