Postirradiation examination of Peach Bottom fuel test element FTE-4

Technical Report · Fri Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7283982· OSTI ID:7283982

Wallroth, C F; Holzgraf, J F; Jensen, D D; Zumwalt, L R

The report presents the irradiation results and their evaluation for Peach Bottom fuel test element FTE-4. It describes in detail the efforts by General Atomic Company over the last two years to establish a system for extracting meaningful performance information from a fuel test element. This has been done with the goal of making direct comparisons between as-measured data and core design code predictions. Special emphasis has been placed on determining the 95% confidence limits on most of the preirradiation and postirradiation measurements in order to allow a better comparison with GAUGE, FEVER, and TREVER code calculations which are used in HTGR core thermal and mechanical design.

• Research Organization: General Atomic Co., San Diego, Calif. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-03-0167-017
• OSTI ID: 7283982
• Report Number(s): GA-A-13452
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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