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Title: Confirmatory LBL Analysis of AGR-5/6/7 Compacts and Over-Coated Particles BWXT Batches 11034, 14154C, 14156C, AND 14156D

Abstract

Fuel for the Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Development and Qualification (AGR) Program’s AGR-5/6/7 irradiation test in the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) was produced by BWX Technologies (BWXT) Nuclear Operations Group in Lynchburg, Virginia. Tristructural isotropic (TRISO) coatings were deposited using a 150-mm-diameter production-scale fluidized-bed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnace on 425-μm-nominal-diameter spherical kernels from Lot J52R-16-69317 containing a mixture of 15.5% 235U low-enriched uranium carbide and uranium oxide (UCO). The TRISO coatings consisted of four consecutive CVD layers: a ~50% dense carbon buffer layer with 100-μmnominal thickness, a dense inner pyrolytic carbon (IPyC) layer with 40-μm-nominal thickness, a silicon carbide (SiC) layer with 35-μm-nominal thickness, and a dense outer pyrolytic carbon (OPyC) layer with 40-μm-nominal thickness. TRISO-coated particle Lot J52R-16-98005 was over-coated with a graphite/resin blend and these over-coated particles were pressed in half-inch-diameter, one-inch-long cylindrical compacts. Two packing fractions (PF) were produced, 40%PF and 25%PF, where the TRISO particle volume made up approximately 40% and 25% of the total compact volume, respectively. The AGR-5/6/7 Fuel Specification, SPC-1352 [Marshall 2016], provides the requirements necessary for acceptance of the fuel manufactured for the AGR-5/6/7 irradiation test. Quality control (QC) acceptance testing for all AGR-5/6/7 composited lots andmore » single batches was performed by BWXT, with the exception of pyrolytic carbon (PyC) anisotropy and defective IPyC fraction in the TRISO candidate batches and final composite, which were measured at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and reported in ORNL/TM-2017/036 [Hunn et al. 2017] and ORNL/TM-2017/037 [Helmreich et al. 2017a].« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Fusion and Materials for Nuclear Systems Division
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5)
Contributing Org.:
BWX Technologies Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (BWXT NOG), Lynchburg, VA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
1435240
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-2018/774
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS

Citation Formats

Hunn, John D., Montgomery, Fred C., Dyer, John A., Keever, Tamara J., and Helmreich, Grant W. Confirmatory LBL Analysis of AGR-5/6/7 Compacts and Over-Coated Particles BWXT Batches 11034, 14154C, 14156C, AND 14156D. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.2172/1435240.
Hunn, John D., Montgomery, Fred C., Dyer, John A., Keever, Tamara J., & Helmreich, Grant W. Confirmatory LBL Analysis of AGR-5/6/7 Compacts and Over-Coated Particles BWXT Batches 11034, 14154C, 14156C, AND 14156D. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1435240
Hunn, John D., Montgomery, Fred C., Dyer, John A., Keever, Tamara J., and Helmreich, Grant W. 2018. "Confirmatory LBL Analysis of AGR-5/6/7 Compacts and Over-Coated Particles BWXT Batches 11034, 14154C, 14156C, AND 14156D". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1435240. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1435240.
@article{osti_1435240,
title = {Confirmatory LBL Analysis of AGR-5/6/7 Compacts and Over-Coated Particles BWXT Batches 11034, 14154C, 14156C, AND 14156D},
author = {Hunn, John D. and Montgomery, Fred C. and Dyer, John A. and Keever, Tamara J. and Helmreich, Grant W.},
abstractNote = {Fuel for the Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Development and Qualification (AGR) Program’s AGR-5/6/7 irradiation test in the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) was produced by BWX Technologies (BWXT) Nuclear Operations Group in Lynchburg, Virginia. Tristructural isotropic (TRISO) coatings were deposited using a 150-mm-diameter production-scale fluidized-bed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnace on 425-μm-nominal-diameter spherical kernels from Lot J52R-16-69317 containing a mixture of 15.5% 235U low-enriched uranium carbide and uranium oxide (UCO). The TRISO coatings consisted of four consecutive CVD layers: a ~50% dense carbon buffer layer with 100-μmnominal thickness, a dense inner pyrolytic carbon (IPyC) layer with 40-μm-nominal thickness, a silicon carbide (SiC) layer with 35-μm-nominal thickness, and a dense outer pyrolytic carbon (OPyC) layer with 40-μm-nominal thickness. TRISO-coated particle Lot J52R-16-98005 was over-coated with a graphite/resin blend and these over-coated particles were pressed in half-inch-diameter, one-inch-long cylindrical compacts. Two packing fractions (PF) were produced, 40%PF and 25%PF, where the TRISO particle volume made up approximately 40% and 25% of the total compact volume, respectively. The AGR-5/6/7 Fuel Specification, SPC-1352 [Marshall 2016], provides the requirements necessary for acceptance of the fuel manufactured for the AGR-5/6/7 irradiation test. Quality control (QC) acceptance testing for all AGR-5/6/7 composited lots and single batches was performed by BWXT, with the exception of pyrolytic carbon (PyC) anisotropy and defective IPyC fraction in the TRISO candidate batches and final composite, which were measured at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and reported in ORNL/TM-2017/036 [Hunn et al. 2017] and ORNL/TM-2017/037 [Helmreich et al. 2017a].},
doi = {10.2172/1435240},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1435240}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}