Completion of Level 2 Milestone – M2AT 19IN030401044, Complete construction of the gas and moisture supply systems and receive the custom-designed tube furnace from the vendor
- Idaho National Laboratory
The Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) program has designed and is now constructing the Air/Moisture Ingress Experiment (AMIX) facility to test irradiated tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuels under air or moisture-ingress accidents postulated for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. AMIX will ultimately be installed in the Fuel Conditioning Facility at the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) at Idaho National Laboratory. AMIX consists of a gas supply (capable of supplying mixtures of air/helium and steam/helium), a tube furnace capable of accepting samples up to 6 cm in diameter and heating them to 1650°C, gamma detectors for measuring the release of condensable, gamma-emitting fission products, and cold traps with gamma detectors for measuring the release of fission gases. Data obtained from AMIX experiments will be used to qualify this new generation of TRISO fuels with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and inform models and simulations of TRISO fuel accident performance and source term.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1562303
- Report Number(s):
- INL/MIS-19-55575-Rev000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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