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Seven pin bundle fast top tests L01 and L02. [LMFBR]

Conference ·
OSTI ID:6202651
Tests L01 and L02 were the first two seven pin bundle tests in the PFR/TREAT program of fuel failure tests carried out jointly by the US and the UK. The two tests were on bottom plenum annular pellet mixed oxide fuel clad in 316 stainless steel. L01 used fresh fuel, while L02 used PFR irradiated 4% burn-up fuel, to determine any differences in the failure mechanism and subsequent fuel behavior due to irradiation. They were performed in flowing sodium in the Mark IIIA version of a TREAT integral loop. Both were fast transient overpower (TOP) tests intended to simulate 5 $/s reactivity ramp hypothetical accidents in a large fast reactor. The test objectives were to obtain information on fuel motion in the central hole before failure, the time and location of cladding failures, and material motion in the channel after failure, having particular regard to the effect of irradiation.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (USA); UKAEA Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith; UKAEA Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
6202651
Report Number(s):
CONF-841105-12; ON: DE84014752
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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