Preliminary plan for the qualification of the LEU/Th fuel cycle for the Fort St. Vrain HTGR

Technical Report · Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6717568· OSTI ID:6717568

Gulden, T. D.; Gainey, B. W.; Altschwager, C. J. ^[1]

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This plan was prepared to ensure that low-enriched uranium/thorium (LEU/Th) would be available as a backup to the highly enriched uranium/thorium (HEU/Th) fuel cycle currently being used in the Fort St. Vrain (FSV) high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) in the event that the US nonproliferation policies require it. It describes the program that would be required to develop, qualify, and introduce an LEU/Th fuel cycle into the FSV HTGR on the earliest possible and most optimistic schedule. The results of the study indicate that licensing of the LEU/Th fuel cycle for FSV could be completed and fuel manufacturing could begin about 4.5 years from inception of the program.

• Research Organization: General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-79SF10748
• OSTI ID: 6717568
• Report Number(s): GA-A-15748
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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