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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
M. A. Feraday, G. H. Chalder, K. D. Cotnam
Nuclear Technology | Volume 4 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 148-153
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A26378
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Zircaloy-clad specimens of U3Si have been irradiated in pressurized water at rod powers of 480 to 565 W per centimeter of length to burnups of ≈ 5500 MWd/tU. The rate of swelling of the U3Si, which is rapid during the early part of the irradiation, appears to decrease with increasing burnup. The increase in external diameter was much less for these fuel elements than for earlier ones. The improvement is attributed to the provision of a central void which became filled by the U3Si during irradiation.