Summary Report for Out-of-Pile Transient Testing Database Development

Technical Report · Mon Sep 30 04:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1811301· OSTI ID:1811301

Tomchik, Carolyn A. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The DOE Advanced Reactor Technology program has supported knowledge preservation efforts to recover and preserve fuel data from the US sodium cooled fast reactor (SFR) program. Efforts have focused on establishing databases of experimental data generated during the Integral Fast Reactor program (at EBR-II, FFTF, and TREAT) as well as during related out-of-pile examinations of the fuel irradiated at EBR-II. The information in these databases is essential to support further development and licensing activities for advanced fast reactor designs. OPTD is a database of out-of-pile furnace transient tests on metallic fuel. It includes records of 62 tests on irradiated fuel pins conducted in furnace apparatuses constructed in the Alpha-Gamma Hot Cell Facility at ANL. This report describes efforts during FY19 to improve visibility and access, expand the content of, and improve the user experience with the FIPD and OPTD databases.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Office of Nuclear Reactor Technologies. Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1811301
• Report Number(s): ANL-ART--184; 169701
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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