scholarly journals Distribution of fission products in Peach Bottom HTGR fuel element F05-05

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Wichner ◽  
F.F. Dyer ◽  
W.J. Martin ◽  
L.L. Fairchild
1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Wichner ◽  
F.F. Dyer ◽  
W.J. Martin ◽  
L.C. Bate

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Wichner ◽  
F.F. Dyer ◽  
W.J. Martin ◽  
L.L. Fairchild

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.F. Dyer ◽  
R.P. Wichner ◽  
W.J. Martin ◽  
L.L. Fairchild

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Wichner ◽  
F.F. Dyer ◽  
W.J. Martin ◽  
L.L. Fairchild

Author(s):  
R. J. Lauf

Fuel particles for the High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) contain a layer of pyrolytic silicon carbide to act as a miniature pressure vessel and primary fission product barrier. Optimization of the SiC with respect to fuel performance involves four areas of study: (a) characterization of as-deposited SiC coatings; (b) thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions between SiC and fission products; (c) irradiation behavior of SiC in the absence of fission products; and (d) combined effects of irradiation and fission products. This paper reports the behavior of SiC deposited on inert microspheres and irradiated to fast neutron fluences typical of HTGR fuel at end-of-life.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libing Zhu ◽  
Xincheng Xiang ◽  
Yi Du ◽  
Gongyi Yu ◽  
Ziqiang Li ◽  
...  

Nonuniform distribution of tri-structural-isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles in a spherical fuel element (SFE) may increase the failure probability of the SFE in the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, leading to the release of fission products. To evaluate the uniformity of the TRISO particles nondestructively, 3-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography is used to image the SFE, and TRISO particles are segmented. After TRISO particle positions are identified, the Voronoi tessellation and Delaunay triangulation are used to extract several geometric metrics. Results indicate that both the Voronoi volume distribution and the nearest neighbor-distance distribution follow the log-normal distributions, which provide strong evidence that the TRISO particles are approximately randomly uniformly distributed. Further study will be focused on validating the conclusion with more SFE data.


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
M. A. Kuzin ◽  

Verification results of filtering process effectiveness of a zinc melt obtained after solving a fuel element cladding of the BOR-60 reactor with nitride spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in it are presented. The test was carried out in a laboratory apparatus for cleaning the zinc melt from slurries of fission products, fuel and intermetallic particles in a hot cell. A filter material selection for the filter elements is discussed. The possibility of using the filtering operation in compliance with a ratio of structural materials to zinc for regeneration of zinc after removal in it the fuel element cladding.


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