U-Mo Monolithic Fuel for Nuclear Research and Test Reactors
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Manuscript Submission Deadline:
July 01, 2017
Publication Date: December 2017
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Scope: Currently, efforts are ongoing globally to develop nuclear fuels for research and test reactors that allow effective conversion from highly enriched uranium (HEU) to low-enriched uranium (LEU), thereby reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation. A majority of the remaining high power nuclear research and test reactors still operating on HEU fuel have fissile atom density requirements that are too high for conversion to existing LEU fuel elements (dispersion fuels). This has led to a pursuit of developing high uranium density U-Mo monolithic fuel that possesses the greatest possible uranium density in the fuel region. In order to effectively lead this pursuit, new developments in processing and fabrication of the fuel elements have been initiated, along with a better understanding of material behavior as a result of these new developments.