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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.
Rainer P. Conrad, Cesare Merlini, Alfred-W. Mehner
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 3 | June 1983 | Pages 403-415
Technical Paper | New Directions in Nuclear Energy with Emphasis on Fuel Cycles / Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33163
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Advanced coated fuel particles doped with fission product and oxygen getters were screened for their mechanical irradiation performance compared to undoped reference-coated fuel particles of the highand low-enriched uranium cycle and the thorium/ high-enriched uranium cycle. The in-pile test was conducted under nominal and extreme operating conditions of current high-temperature gas-cooled reactor requirements. Doped coated fuel particles do not perform significantly better than reference particle systems; although, some advanced kernel varieties showed promising results.