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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
S. M. Zivi, M. Epstein, R. W. Wright, J. J. Barghusen, D. H. Cho, F. J. Testa, G. T. Goldfuss, R. W. Mouring
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 229-240
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26737
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Two in-pile transient experiments were performed in the TREAT Reactor Facility to investigate fuel-coolant interaction phenomena that might occur in a hypothetical prompt-burst disassembly accident involving extensive fuel vaporization in a nearly unvoided liquid-metal fast breeder reactor core. In these tests, a single fuel pin containing 28 g of UO2 was subjected to a self-limited 23-msec-period TREAT power excursion which deposited fission energy of 1700 cal/g of UO2 in the fuel. The pin was contained in an instrumented autoclave filled with stagnant sodium. Failure of the fuel pins occurred at a mean energy input of about 540 cal/g, corresponding to a UO2 vapor pressure of about 100 atm. Results of these tests indicated that no energetic fuel-coolant interaction was produced and that the measured transient pressures can be reasonably described by the time history of the fuel vapor pressure.