Abstract
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Advanced Fuels Campaign (AFC) is conducting research and development to elevate the technology readiness level of Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuels, a candidate nuclear fuel with potentially enhanced accident tolerance due to very high fission product retention. One of the early activities in FY17 was to demonstrate production of FCM pellets with uranium nitride TRISO particles. This was carried out in preparation of the larger pellet production campaign in support of the upcoming irradiation testing of this fuel form at INL’s Advanced Test Reactor.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | United States |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
- ACCIDENT-TOLERANT NUCLEAR FUELS
- SILICON CARBIDES
- URANIUM NITRIDES
- COMPACTING
- FUEL PELLETS
- CERAMICS
- ENCAPSULATION