Recent accomplishments in the irradiation testing of engineering-scale monolithic fuel specimens

NE Woolstenhulme; DM Wachs; MK Meyer; HW Glunz; RB Nielson

Recent accomplishments in the irradiation testing of engineering-scale monolithic fuel specimens

NE Woolstenhulme
, DM Wachs
, MK Meyer
, HW Glunz
, RB Nielson

Nuclear Fuels & Materials

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The US fuel development team is focused on qualification and demonstration of the uranium-molybdenum monolithic fuel including irradiation testing of engineering-scale specimens. The team has recently accomplished the successful irradiation of the first monolithic multi-plate fuel element assembly within the AFIP-7 campaign. The AFIP-6 MKII campaign, while somewhat truncated by hardware challenges, exhibited successful irradiation of a large-scale monolithic specimen under extreme irradiation conditions. The channel gap and ultrasonic data are presented for AFIP-7 and AFIP-6 MKII, respectively. Finally, design concepts are summarized for future irradiations such as the base fuel demonstration and design demonstration experiment campaigns.

Original language	English
State	Published - Oct 1 2012

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17436

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