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Fabrication of spheroidized particles by the powder metallurgy agglomeration process. Project DRAGON

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4113163
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During the year 1961 preliminary contacts took place between the DRAGON Project and the Department of Metallurgy of the C.E.N., and towards the end of the same year DRAGON made an official proposal for C.E.N. to work on spheroidized particles. In a study conducted within the scope of the Euratom-United States Joint Research and Development Programme, and in collaboration with Belgo Nucleaire, the C.E.N. had developed a process for fabricating spherical particles of UO2. The Dragon Project required that a study be undertaken with the view to extend the above process to the fabrication of spherical particles of thorium and uranium carbides. The official contract began one year ago, in January 1962. During the course of the year numerous exchanges of personnel and ideas took place. Consequently, personnel connected with the Dragon Project visited Mol on several occasions to follow the progress of the contract and become acquainted with the techniques employed. Likewise engineers of the C.E.N. went often to Winfrith, to discuss the process and to facilitate its development in glove-boxes.
Research Organization:
Centre d'Etude de l'Energie Nucleaire, Mol (Belgium)
Sponsoring Organization:
Atomic Energy Establishment (AEE)
NSA Number:
NSA-24-042194
OSTI ID:
4113163
Report Number(s):
DP-Report--149; CONF-630103--14
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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