Design examination of the high-duty irradiation loop

Ogawa, Mitsuhiro; Iimura, Koichi ; Hosokawa, Jinsaku; Kanno, Masaru

JMTR is making preparations of the irradiation examinations towards the re-operation from the 2011 fiscal year now. Design examination of the high-duty irradiation loop is in one of these irradiation examinations of the irradiation plan. The examination is the plan to carry out the irradiation examination of the light water reactor fuel (uranium fuel and mixed oxide fuel) which reached the high burnup, under the irradiation environment nearer to the light water reactor plant. In the 2009 fiscal year, we carried out (1) System design and (2) Earthquake-proof calculation of in-pile tube of the high-duty irradiation loop. And, for the fuel action between covering pipe and pellets of fuel rod which reached the high burnup, we carried out (3) System design of the lift-off test facility. Moreover, we carried out (4) Examination about detection system of fuel breakage when a fuel sample is damaged, and (5) Examination about system composition of effluent treatment system.