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From South Korea to Belgium: Testing a high-density research reactor fuel
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has developed a high-density uranium silicide fuel designed to replace high-enriched uranium in research reactors. Recent irradiation tests appear to be successful, KAERI reports, which means the fuel could be commercialized to continue a key global nuclear nonproliferation effort—converting research reactors to run on low-enriched uranium fuel.
Haibiao Ji, Jiefeng Wu, Huapeng Wu, Zhihong Liu, Jianguo Ma, Yongqi Gu, Xiaosong Fan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 3 | April 2021 | Pages 220-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1874763
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Laser trackers are widely used in product inspection in the manufacturing process of the vacuum vessel (VV) for the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR). Due to the influence of temperature change on the geometrical properties of metallic materials, temperature change seriously affects the measurement accuracy of the workpiece. Therefore, temperature compensation is important to reduce the measurement errors caused by temperature change. This study uses 1/32 VV mockups as the research object. According to the results of finite element analysis and the onsite measurement results of the 1/32 VV at different temperatures, a method of temperature compensation for the 1/32 VV at different temperatures is summarized.