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Hot cell characterization of failed spent fuel rods

Conference ·
OSTI ID:277792
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  1. Inst. of Nuclear Energy Research, Lung-Tan (Taiwan, Province of China). Div. of Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Twenty-six failed nonbarrier BWR rods were examined in the hot cells. The purposes are to identify the failure root cause and to study the post-defect behaviors. This paper has summarized the quantification data of post-defect fuel behavior (e.g. hydrogen uptake and oxidation of fuel cladding and microstructural evolution of fuel pellet etc.) of the studied failed rods. It is aimed to document more pre-storage characterization data of defect spent fuel as the references for the ongoing interim storage program.
OSTI ID:
277792
Report Number(s):
CONF-960306--; ISBN 0-7918-1226-X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English