METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL ELEMENT
Patent
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OSTI ID:4174540
A ceramic fuel for boiling water reactors is reported consisting of UO/ sub 2/ + ThO/sub 2/, prepared by intimately mixing finely divided ThO/sub 2/ and U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ or UC/sub 3/, compacting to the d esired form, and sintering in air at 1450 to 2000 deg C. A preferred method is mixing 6.59% U/sub 3/ O/sub 8/ and 93.41% ThO/sub 2/ (particle size 0.044 mm), compacting under 980 kg/cm/sup 2/ and sintering at 1750 deg C.
- Research Organization:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-021988
- OSTI ID:
- 4174540
- Report Number(s):
- FR 1198569
- Country of Publication:
- France
- Language:
- English
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