Proceedings of the 25th anniversary meeting of the Alpha-Gamma facility

Kajitani, Yukio; not registered; Abe, Kazuyuki; Osaka, Masahiko  ; not registered; Hirosawa, Takashi  ; Koyama, Shinichi  

The 25th anniversary meeting of the Alpha-Gamma Facility (AGF) at O-arai Engineering Center of PNC was held on February 7. The AGF started to examine irradiated materials on october 1 and fuel pins irradiated in the Dounreay Fast Reactor, DFR332/2 on December 1, 1971. The contents in this paper of the anniversary meeting are as follows. (1)25 years history and challenging plan for 2000 year. (2)Maintenance logbook of the facility, apparatus and manipulators for 25 years. (3)Recent results of melting temperature, thermal conductivity and lattice constants in irradiated MOX fuels. (4)Development on fission products release measuring apparatus and results of cold run tests. (5)Post irradiated examination results operated at the metallography cell in the Fuels Monitoring Facility (FMF). (6)Development on chemical analysis method for minor actinides (MA) in irradiated MOX fuels. (7)Refurbishment for MA containing MOX fuels, status and specifications for the fabrication and quality control apparatus.