Fabrication of mixed-oxide nuclear fuel in support of the Parallex project
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (United States)
The U.S. Department of Energy`s Office of Fissile Materials Disposition (OFMD) has initiated an experimental program to demonstrate the feasibility of disposing of surplus weapons plutonium in Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU) heavy water reactors. In this project, called Parallex (PARALLel EXperiment), both the United States and Russia fabricated mixed-oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel using plutonium from dismantled weapons for irradiation testing in the national research universal (NRU) test reactor at the Atomic Energy of Canada. Limited (AECL) laboratory at Chalk River, Ontario. As part of Parallex, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was tasked by OFMD to fabricate the U.S. portion of the MOX fuel. This paper summarizes the fabrication process for this project and reviews some of the associated technical issues.
- OSTI ID:
- 426342
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961103--
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 75; ISSN TANSAO; ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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