Fabrication of thorium bearing carbide fuels
Abstract
Thorium-uranium carbide and thorium-plutonium carbide fuel pellets have been fabricated by the carbothermic reduction process. Temperatures of 1750/sup 0/C and 2000/sup 0/C were used during the reduction cycle. Sintering temperatures of 1800/sup 0/C and 2000/sup 0/C were used to prepare fuel pellet densities of 87% and > 94% of theoretical, respectively. The process allows the fabrication of kilogram quantities of fuel with good reproductibility of chemical and phase composition.
- Inventors:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5261286
- Assignee:
- TIC; ERA-05-032274; EDB-80-095322
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; FUEL PELLETS; FABRICATION; PLUTONIUM CARBIDES; THORIUM CARBIDES; URANIUM CARBIDES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; CARBIDES; CARBON COMPOUNDS; PELLETS; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; THORIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; 220300* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Fuel Elements; 360201 - Ceramics, Cermets, & Refractories- Preparation & Fabrication
Citation Formats
Gutierrez, R L, Herbst, R J, and Johnson, K W.R. Fabrication of thorium bearing carbide fuels. United States: N. p.,
Web.
Gutierrez, R L, Herbst, R J, & Johnson, K W.R. Fabrication of thorium bearing carbide fuels. United States.
Gutierrez, R L, Herbst, R J, and Johnson, K W.R. .
"Fabrication of thorium bearing carbide fuels". United States.
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title = {Fabrication of thorium bearing carbide fuels},
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abstractNote = {Thorium-uranium carbide and thorium-plutonium carbide fuel pellets have been fabricated by the carbothermic reduction process. Temperatures of 1750/sup 0/C and 2000/sup 0/C were used during the reduction cycle. Sintering temperatures of 1800/sup 0/C and 2000/sup 0/C were used to prepare fuel pellet densities of 87% and > 94% of theoretical, respectively. The process allows the fabrication of kilogram quantities of fuel with good reproductibility of chemical and phase composition.},
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