Measurement of Average Burnup in TRISO-Coated Particles from AGR-2 UCO Compacts 2-2-2 and 6-4-2
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Burnup analysis was performed on tristructural-isotropic (TRISO)-coated particles deconsolidated from compacts irradiated by the Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Development and Qualification Program in the second irradiation experiment (AGR-2) [Collin 2014]. The AGR-2 irradiation experiment included TRISO fuel particles with kernels containing both uranium oxide and uranium carbide, called UCO, where uranium carbide is included with the commonly-used uranium oxide in the kernel to provide a getter for oxygen liberated during fission and limit CO production. This allows the UCO-TRISO particles to be taken to higher burnup without failure from excessive internal CO pressure or CO-corrosion of the SiC layer. The UCO kernels were fabricated and coated at BWX Technologies Nuclear Operations Group (BWXT-NOG) with a 150-mm-diameter engineering-scale coater. The UCO-TRISO batch used in the AGR-2 irradiation experiment was Batch 93073, which had kernels with an average diameter of 426.7 μm and average coating thicknesses moving out from the kernel of 98.9 μm (buffer), 40.4 μm (IPyC), 35.2 μm (SiC), 43.4 μm (OPyC) [Barnes and Marshall 2009]. The TRISO particle were shipped to ORNL to be formed into compacts for irradiation testing. The compact lot qualified for the AGR-2 irradiation test was lot LEU09-OP2-Z and had an average of 3176 UCO-TRISO particles in each compact [Hunn, Montgomery, and Pappano 2010]. Compilations of the properties data for the particles and compacts are available in a pre-irradiation characterization summary report for the AGR-2 fuel composites [Hunn, Savage, and Silva 2010].
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Reactor Technologies (NE-7)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1476419
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2018/931
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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