Power Burst Facility Severe Fuel Damage test series

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5338696

Buescher, B J; Osetek, D J; Ploger, S A

The Severe Fuel Damage (SFD) tests planned for the Power Burst Facility (PBF) are described. Bundles containing 32 zircaloy-clad, PWR-type fuel rods will be subjected to severe overheating transients in a high-pressure, superheated-steam environment. Cladding temperatures are expected to reach 2400/sup 0/K, resulting in cladding ballooning and rupture, severe cladding oxidation, cladding melting, fuel dissolution, fuel rod fragmentation, and possibly, rubble bed formation. An experiment effluent collection system is being installed and the PBF fission product monitoring system is being upgraded to meet the special requirements of the SFD tests. Scoping calculations were performed to evaluate performance of the SFD test design and to establish operational requirements for the PBF loop.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 5338696
• Report Number(s): EGG-M-08382; CONF-820406-16; ON: DE82017729
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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