Breached pin performance in reference design fuel pins

Conference · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6748938

Makenas, B. J.; Weber, J. W.

All of the 19 HEDL mixed oxide (75% UO/sub 2/, 25% PuO/sub 2/) FFTF reference design experiments in EBR-II have now been completed. Many of the experiments were deliberately irradiated to high burnup in order to determine failure mechanisms, and cladding breaches occurred in 20 of the 1156 stainless steel clad pins irradiated in these subassemblies. Results from the examinations of 12 of these pins were reported previously. The examinations of the four most recent breached pins (P-14-29, 23B-31B, 23C-12A, and 23C-7A) are the subject of this paper.

• Research Organization: Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC14-76FF02170
• OSTI ID: 6748938
• Report Number(s): HEDL-SA-2210-FP; CONF-801107-52
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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