Y-12 NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX LEU-MO FEEDSTOCK FABRICATION UPDATE
- Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
The Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) participates in the fuel fabrication pillar of lhe National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) Office of Material Minimization and Management (M3) Office of Conversion Pillar. Y-12's primary responsibility is to establish a reliable fabrication process of low-enriched uranium-molybdenum (LEU-Mo) feedstock tor United States High Performance Research Reactors (US HPRRs). This update compares US HPRR LEU-Mo feedstock fabrication ettorts over the past several casting campaigns at Y-12 which vary in process methodologies and fabrication parameters. With recent changes to the latest feedstock casting campaign, Process Design Standard-2 (PD-STD-2). Y-12 has seen a significant decrease in isotopic uranium variability of the fuel feedstock fabricated.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant (Y-12), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-NA0001942
- OSTI ID:
- 1820988
- Report Number(s):
- IROS29645
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: RERTR-2021 International Meeting; Virtual Meeting; April 20-22, 2021
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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