Fission product release and transport in gas-cooled fast breeder reactor sealed and vented irradiation experiments

Conference · Wed Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6310060

Langer, S.; Buzzelli, G.; Lindgren, J. R.; Flynn, P. W.; Campana, R. J.; Neimark, L.; Greenberg, S.; Johnson, C. E.

The vented and pressure-equalized design of gas-cooled fast breeder reactor (GCFR) fuel rods and subassemblies has been studied for several years. The vented design imposes on the reactor designer the requirement of being able to predict the behavior and transport of all important gaseous and volatile radionuclides so that their expected distribution in the plant may be used for component design and safety analysis. The irradiation experiment data base is described from which information on the transporting species and the transported fractions of volatile and gaseous species is obtained. The data are analyzed to define the predominant transporting mechanism for the nuclides in each mass chain.

• Research Organization: General Atomic Co., San Diego, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-03-0167-023
• OSTI ID: 6310060
• Report Number(s): GA-A-15197; CONF-790306-6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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