Failed fuel monitoring and surveillance techniques for liquid metal cooled fast reactors

Technical Report · Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/71382· OSTI ID:71382

Lambert, J D.B.; Mikaili, R; Gross, K C; Strain, R V ^[1]; Aoyama, T; Ukai, S; Nomura, S; Nakae, N ^[2]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
2. Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp., Oarai, Ibaraki (Japan)

The Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) has been used as a facility for irradiation of LMR fuels and components for thirty years. During this time many tests of experimental fuel were continued to cladding breach in order to study modes of element failure; the methods used to identify such failures are described in a parallel paper. This paper summarizes experience of monitoring the delayed-neutron (DN) and fission-gas (FG) release behavior of a smaller number of elements that continued operation in the run-beyond-cladding-breach (RBCB) mode. The scope of RBCB testing, the methods developed to characterize failures on-line, and examples of DN/FG behavior are described.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 71382
• Report Number(s): ANL/ED/CP-85853; CONF-950311-3; ON: DE95011954; TRN: 95:015364
• Resource Relation: Conference: BNES international conference on fuel management and handling, Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 20-22 Mar 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
21 NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
EBR-2 REACTOR
FAILED ELEMENT DETECTION
FUEL ELEMENT FAILURE
FAILED ELEMENT MONITORS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
DELAYED NEUTRONS
FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE