Fabrication and test results of testing equipment for remote-handling of MA fuel, 3; Testing equipment for fuel loading

Tazawa, Yujiro; Nishihara, Kenji  ; Sugawara, Takanori  ; Tsujimoto, Kazufumi 

Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility (TEF-P) planned in the J-PARC project uses minor actinide (MA) fuels which have large radioactivity. So it is necessary to remote handling for loading and taking these MA fuel pins to the TEF-P core. The testing equipment for fuel loading was fabricated with dummy fuel pins and the mock-up core, and performed the loading and taking test. Useful design data was obtained by the fabrication, and it was confirmed to load/take dummy fuel pins from the mock-up core without failure.