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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
R. A. Reuter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 2 | October 1964 | Pages 219-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A28934
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Duplex coated fuel particles consist of two discontinuous layers of pyrolytic coating. Theoretical advantages of the layered construction appear substantiated in irradiation tests. The inner coating is applied at temperatures of 1400 C to 1750 C, and the high-density, more graphitic final coating is applied at 1800 to 2200 C. Coating micro-structure may be varied from a rough-surfaced highly oolitic conical pyrolytic to a smooth, glossy fine coned pyrolytic. The force necessary to crush these particles is inversely proportional to pyrolytic cone length. Irradiation of Duplex particles at temperatures up to 1200 C and bum-up s to 30 atom percent show a steady Kr88 of 10-5.
