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Aihara, Jun; Goto, Minoru; Ueta, Shohei; Tachibana, Yukio
JAEA-Data/Code 2019-018, 22 Pages, 2020/01
JAEA-Data-Code-2019-018.pdf:1.39MB
Concept of Pu-burner high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) was proposed for purpose of more safely reducing amount of recovered Pu. In Pu-burner HTGR concept, coated fuel particle (CFP), with ZrC coated yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) containing PuO
(PuO-YSZ) small particle and with tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) coating, is employed for very high burn-up and high nuclear proliferation resistance. ZrC layer is oxygen getter. On the other hand, we have developed Code-B-2.5.2 for prediction of pressure vessel failure probabilities of SiC-tri-isotropic (TRISO) coated fuel particles for HTGRs under operation by modification of an existing code, Code-B-2. The main purpose of modification is preparation of applying code for CFPs of Pu-burner HTGR. In this report, basic formulae are described.
and (U,Pu)ONakamichi, Shinya; Hirooka, Shun; Sunaoshi, Takeo*; Kato, Masato; Nelson, A.*; McClellan, K.*
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 113(1), p.617 - 618, 2015/10
Cerium dioxide has been used as a surrogate material for plutonium dioxide. Dorr et al reported the use of hyper-stoichiometric conditions causes the start of shrinkage of (U,Ce)O at low temperature compared with the sintering in reducing atmosphere. However, the precise stoichiometry of the samples investigated was not controlled or otherwise monitored, preventing any quantitative conclusions regarding the similarities or differences between (U,Ce)O and (U,Pu)O. The motivation for the present work is therefore to compare the sintering behavior of MOX and the (U,Ce)O MOX surrogates under controlled atmospheres to assess the role of oxygen defects on densification in both systems.
Morimoto, Kyoichi; Ogasawara, Masahiro*
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The heat capacity of MOX fuel is one of the important thermophysical properties. To evaluate the heat capacity of MOX fuel, the heat capacity of PuO is required because the heat capacity of MOX fuel is generally calculated from the compositional average of those of UO and PuO. The experimental results of the heat capacity of PuO are very scarce. In this study, the enthalpy of PuO pellet was measured in the temperature range from 980 to 2160 K with a drop calorimeter. In the measurement, the pellet was loaded in a tungsten container and a rhenium inner container was applied to prevent the reaction between the specimen and the tungsten container. It was found that the enthalpy increased at a constant rate with increasing temperature up to about 1900 K, and that above about 1900 K, its rate tended to increase with increasing temperature. It means that the heat capacity is raised when temperature exceeds about 1900 K.
Kato, Masato; Watanabe, Masashi; Nakamura, Hiroki; Machida, Masahiko
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