UCO TRISO Minifuel FY23 NSUF-Kairos Power Post-Irradiation Examination Status Report
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Kairos Power, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Irradiation of miniature tristructural isotropic (TRISO)–coated particle fuel compacts at high-power particle was performed in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) using the MiniFuel irradiation capability. Each compact comprised 20 TRISO particles with a low-enriched uranium carbide uranium oxide (UCO), natural UCO, or low-enriched UO2 kernel within a graphitic matrix. After irradiation, the MiniFuel targets and subcapsules were disassembled to recover the irradiated fuel specimens and pursue post-irradiation examination (PIE) to inform Kairos Power on the fuel specimen performance. This report describes the PIE results collected to date, including dilatometry on the passive thermometry to confirm the irradiation temperature, fission gas release measurements, and gamma counting. This work was funded by the Nuclear Science User Facilities program.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1995670
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2023/2985; TRN: US2404644
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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