FY23 Status of Quality Assurance Plan for Out-of-Pile Test Data

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2007148· OSTI ID:2007148

Tomchik, C. ^[1]

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

The DOE Advanced Reactor Technology program has supported recovery and preservation of legacy metallic fuel data collected as part of the US fast reactor program, recognizing it as essential to development and licensing activities for advanced fast reactors. Databases were established as organized collections of experimental records and data generated from in-pile experiments at EBRII, FFTF, and TREAT as well as related out-of-pile examinations of irradiated fuels. The Out-of-Pile Transient Database (OPTD), includes records of over 150 out-of-pile furnace transient tests on metallic fuels conducted at Argonne’s Alpha-Gamma Hot Cell Facility to evaluate their transient performance and characterize fuel/cladding interaction. The database is accessible to registered users from US universities, laboratories, and nuclear industry. Because the data in OPTD has not been formally qualified, its applicability and ability to support licensing activities is limited. This report outlines progress and plans to quality assure data in OPTD, maximizing its impact for model validation and verification as well as qualification of fuels for safe and effective use in advanced reactor designs.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART). Office of Nuclear Reactor Technologies
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 2007148
• Report Number(s): ANL-ART--277; 185379
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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