Test bed for high-uranium-loaded fuel plates
Conference
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OSTI ID:5591675
An irradiation test facility has been designed and built to provide a test bed for irradiating a variety of miniature fuel plates. The objective of these tests is to screen various candidate materials as to their suitability for replacing the fully enriched uranium fuel materials currently used by the world's test and research reactors with a lower enrichment fuel material, without significantly degrading reactor operating characteristics and power levels. The use of low-uranium enrichment (up to 45%) in place of highly-enriched fuel for these reactors would reduce the potential for /sup 235/U diversion.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 5591675
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-791103-76
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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