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Lightbridge announces first U-Zr fuel rod samples extruded at INL
Lightbridge Corporation announced today that it has reached “a critical milestone” in the development of its extruded solid fuel technology. Coupon samples using an alloy of zirconium and depleted uranium—not the high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) that Lightbridge plans to use to manufacture its fuel for the commercial market—were extruded at Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex.
Robert D. Day, Robert L. Sebring
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 4 | May 2006 | Pages 638-641
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1178
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The thickness of the bands used in targets for CYLMIX experiments is an important experimental parameter. This measurement becomes difficult because the peak-to-valley surface roughness is at least 10% of the band thickness. Therefore, a method had to be devised that would accurately represent the band thickness and include the statistical nature of the very rough surface. The Effective Density was the parameter chosen to give a good representation of the band thickness. This paper describes how to make this measurement and how it was used in recent CYLMIX experiments.