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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Walter L. Weaver III, Marvin E. Wyman, Barclay G. Jones
Nuclear Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | September 1976 | Pages 350-360
Technical Paper | Uranium Resource / Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31649
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The neutron spectrum in the Illinois Advanced TRIGA Reactor was measured by a crystal spectrometer utilizing an LiF(1, 1, 1) crystal monochromator whose reflectivity was determined experimentally. The fission heat source distribution in a fuel element was also determined as a function of the fuel element temperature. These two measurements were used to investigate the effects of fuel element temperature and the local core loading on the thermal diffusion length in a fuel element. Changes in the thermal diffusion lengths during a reactor pulse underlie the proposed temperature feedback mechanism for the ZrH fuel material. The results of the measurements confirm, in party this proposed temperature feedback mechanism.
