Additional Confirmatory LBL Analysis of AGR-5/6/7 Compacts and Over-Coated Particles
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Fuel compacts for the Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Development and Qualification (AGR) Program’s AGR-5/6/7 irradiation test in the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) were fabricated by BWX Technologies Nuclear Operations Group (BWXT NOG) located in Lynchburg, Virginia. Two compact packing fractions (PFs) were produced - nominally, 40% PF and 25% PF - in which the tristructural-isotropic (TRISO)-coated particle volume was targeted to be approximately 40% and 25% of the total compact volume, respectively. The TRISO coatings were deposited using a 150 mm diameter fluidized-bed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnace on spherical kernels that were nominally 425 μm in diameter. The kernels were from kernel composite Lot J52R-16-69317, which contained low-enriched uranium (15.5% 235U) in a mixture of uranium carbide and uranium oxide (UCO). Kernels were coated with four concentric CVD layers: a porous carbon buffer layer that was nominally 100 μm thick, an inner pyrolytic carbon (IPyC) layer that was nominally 40 μm thick, a silicon carbide (SiC) layer that was nominally 35 μm thick, and an outer pyrolytic carbon (OPyC) layer that was nominally 40-μm-thick. Coated particle composite J52R-16-98005 was overcoated (OC) with a graphite/resin blend, and these OC TRISO particles were pressed to form cylindrical compacts that were nominally a half inch in diameter and one inch long.
- 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:
- 1607172
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2019/1154
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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