Development of cooling hopper for high heat generating MOX powder

Murakami, Tatsutoshi; Shibanuma, Kimikazu; Hanawa, Yukio; Yamaki, Takao; Suzuki, Mitsuru; Aono, Shigenori

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MOX powder containing organic additives is loaded in a hopper. The hopper has a cooling function to mitigate heat deterioration of organic additives, but its cooling may not be enough for higher order plutonium in the future. So temperature measurement of MOX powder in the hopper was carried out as a preliminarily test for development of cooling hopper.