Breached pin performance in the EBR-II RBCB program
Conference
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OSTI ID:6839383
The results of five recent RBCB tests show that fuel-sodium reaction does not greatly degrade the performance of (UPu)O/sub 2/ pins: cladding breaches tend to stabilize and not lose fuel, while reaction product at the surface only mildly increases fuel temperatures. A bundle of 19 high-burnup pins with three failures was operated successfully for 97 days and low-burnup pins with simulated defective upper welds were operated for 152 days without difficulty. Several midlife failures were tested for shorter time to study fuel-sodium reaction. Testing continues in order to characterize the long-term RBCB behavior of midlife failures.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (USA); Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp., Tokyo (Japan)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 6839383
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-860931-7; ON: DE87004487
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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