AGR-5/6/7 Post-Irradiation Examination Plan

Stempien, John D

Title: AGR-5/6/7 Post-Irradiation Examination Plan

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This plan describes the PIE activities to be carried out on AGR-5/6/7 fuel and the non-fuel components of the AGR-5/6/7 irradiation test train. PIE of AGR-5/6/7 fuel and test train components will provide data on fuel performance over a range of irradiation conditions (e.g., burnup, neutron fluence, and temperature), test fuel under postulated accident conditions, and support development of fuel performance and fission product transport models. Examination of the non-fuel test train components will give information on TRISO fuel and compact performance and information on releases of radioactive fission products from the fuel compacts. PIE of the fuel compacts is used for many purposes including, but not limited to: updating the irradiation thermal calculations, measuring burnup, determining retention/release of fission products from the compacts and the TRISO particles, determining TRISO layer failure rates, determining fuel performance at elevated accident temperatures, determining fuel performance under oxidizing atmospheres, determining the distribution of fission products within the compact and fuel particles, and observing compact and particle morphology to explain mechanisms of TRISO layer failure and/or fission product release/retention.

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Idaho National Laboratory

Publication Date:: 2020-08-11

Research Org.:: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1774800

Report Number(s):: INL/EXT-20-59111-Rev000

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC07-05ID14517

Resource Type:: Program Document

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 11 - NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; TRISO fuel; AGR; AGR-5/6/7; post-irradiation examination; PIE

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