Fuel behavior and fission product release in the BTF-107 severe-fuel-damage experiment

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:6844062

Dickson, L W; DeVaal, J W; Popov, N K; Cox, D S ^[1]

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1. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Manitoba (Canada)

The principal experimental tool in Canada for performing in-reactor fuel safety experiments is the Blowdown Test Facility (BTF) located in the national research universal reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL's) Chalk River Laboratories. The in-reactor experiments performed in the BTF are designed to obtain data on the behavior of Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU) fuel under accident conditions and are currently funded by the CANDU Owners Group, a cost-sharing partnership between AECL and the Canadian electrical utilities that own CANDU pressurized heavy-water reactors (Ontario Hydro, Hydro-Quebec, and New Brunswick Power).

• OSTI ID: 6844062
• Report Number(s): CONF-931160-; CODEN: TANSAO
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States), Vol. 69; Conference: American Nuclear Society (ANS) winter meeting, San Francisco, CA (United States), 14-18 Nov 1993; ISSN 0003-018X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DAMAGE
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
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RESEARCH PROGRAMS
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