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Work advances on X-energy’s TRISO fuel fabrication facility
Small modular reactor developer X-energy, together with its fuel-developing subsidiary TRISO-X, has selected Clark Construction Group to finish the building construction phase of its advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility, known as TX-1, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. It will be the first of two Oak Ridge facilities built to manufacture the company’s TRISO fuel for use in its Xe-100 SMR. The initial deployment of the Xe-100 will be at Dow Chemical Company’s UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site on Texas’s Gulf Coast.
J. C. Connor, R. T. Bayard, D. Macdonald, S. B. Gunst
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 3 | September 1967 | Pages 408-414
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17288
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The neutron-capture resonance integral of 233Pa has been measured by irradiating cadmium-covered thorium wires, and, after suitable chemical separations, determining the quantity of 234U produced. Results are reported for two methods of measuring the irradiating flux. Monitor wires of cobalt in aluminum alloy give integrated fluxes based upon a value of 72.0 b for the resonance integral of 59Co. Alternatively, measurements of the 233U produced by the irradiations give integrated fluxes based upon an effective resonance integral of 36.5 b measured for the 232Th wires. The experiments provide 233Pa resonance integral results of 846 ± 43 b employing cobalt-monitored fluxes, and 837 ± 43 b employing thorium-monitored fluxes. These results, which have an average value of 842 ± 35 b, include the l/ν component of the cross section, and are appropriate for a 1/E spectrum and a perfect filter with a low energy cutoff of 0.50 eV.