Development plan of high burnup fuel for high temperature gas-cooled reactors in future

Aihara, Jun; Ueta, Shohei; Honda, Masaki*; Blynskiy, P.*; Gizatulin, S.*; Sakaba, Nariaki; Tachibana, Yukio

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 51(11-12), p.1355 - 1363, 2014/11

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2014.924886

Plan and status of research and development (R&D) were described on coated fuel particle (CFP) and fuel compacts for core of small sized high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) HTR50S at 2nd step of phase I (second core of HTR50S). Specifications of existing CFPs for high burnup (HTR50S2-type-CFPs) were adopted as specifications of CFPs, to reduce the R&D. HTR50S2-type-CFPs were fabricated based on technology developed in High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) project. First irradiation test of HTR50S2-type-CFPs is now being carried out. In addition, R&D for fuel compact with high packing fraction is needed, because volume fraction of fuel kernel to whole of HTR50S2-type-CFP is rather smaller than that of the HTTR-type-CFP. In addition, we describe outline of R&D plans for core of HTR50S in phase II and naturally safe HTGR.