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Argonne updates: Fuel research and materials lab
Over the past two weeks, Argonne National Laboratory has announced numerous significant advancements being made by its staff to push forward nuclear fuels and materials research. Those announcements include the opening of the new Activated Materials Lab, the development of a new measurement technique, and the application of new artificial intelligence tools.
W. V. Goeddel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 10 | October 1967 | Pages 599-614
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27919
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Coated-particle fuels have been adopted for all of the current and proposed high-temperature gas-cooled thermal reactors: the General Atomic High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR), the OECD DRAGON Reactor Experiment, the German pebble-bed reactors (AVR and THTR), and the Ultra-High-Temperature Reactor Experiment (UHTREX) of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. In addition, coated-particle fuel is being considered for the British Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) in order to achieve higher fuel-surface temperatures. The design and operational characteristics of these reactors are summarized, and detailed descriptions and illustrations of their fuel elements, fuel compacts, and coated-particle fuel are presented. A comprehensive list of references is given for each reactor and its fuel.