Year One Summary of X-energy Pebble Fuel Development at ORNL

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1376502· OSTI ID:1376502

Helmreich, Grant W. ^[1]; Hunn, John D. ^[1]; McMurray, Jake W. ^[1]; Hunt, Rodney D. ^[1]; Jolly, Brian C. ^[1]; Trammell, Michael P. ^[1]; Brown, Daniel R. ^[1]; Blamer, Brandon J. ^[1]; Reif, Tyler J. ^[1]; Kim, Howard T. ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The Advanced Reactor Concepts X-energy (ARC-Xe) Pebble Fuel Development project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has successfully completed its first year, having made excellent progress in accomplishing programmatic objectives. The primary focus of research at ORNL in support of X-energy has been the training of X-energy fuel fabrication engineers and the establishment of US pebble fuel production capabilities able to supply the Xe-100 pebble-bed reactor. These efforts have been strongly supported by particle fuel fabrication and characterization expertise present at ORNL from the Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Development and Qualification Program.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1376502
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2017/337
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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