Fuel motion in TREAT tests M5F1, M5F2, M6 and M7: preliminary analysis of hodoscope data

Technical Report · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/714612· OSTI ID:714612

Rhodes, E A; Stanford, G S; Regis, J P

Preliminary results from hodoscope data analyses are presented for TREAT transient-overpower tests M5 through M7, including expansion at the tops of the fuel pins, changes in relative worth of fuel pins, and lateral pin motion. Tests M5 and M6 were the first TOP tests of margin to cladding breach and prefailure elongation of D9-clad ternary (U-Pu-Zr) IFR-type fuel. Test M7 extends these results to high-burnup fuel and also initiates transient testing of HT9-clad binary (U-Zr) FFTF-driver fuel. 5 refs., 17 figs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 714612
• Report Number(s): ANL-IFR-112; ON: TI89021320
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Jul 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
TREAT REACTOR
FUEL PINS
TRANSIENT OVERPOWER ACCIDENTS
REACTOR SAFETY
FUEL CANS
FFTF REACTOR
ALLOY-HT-9
HODOSCOPES
BURNUP
IFR REACTOR
DATA ANALYSIS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA