PIE results of comparative irradiation tests in HFR for sphere-pac fuel, pellet fuel and vipac fuel

Morihira, Masayuki; Hellwig, C.*; Bakker, J.*; Nakamura, Masahiro; Ozawa, Takayuki; Bart, G.*; Kihara, Yoshiyuki

Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Energy System for Future Generation and Global Sustainability (GLOBAL 2005) (CD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2005/10

Comparative irradiation tests of sphere-pac fuel (SPF) with pellet type fuel (PF) and vipac fuel (VPF) were performed in the HFR in the Netherlands in a framework of the collaboration project amog JNC, PSI and NRG. Three restructuring tests and a powet-to-melt test were performed in 2004 and 2005 to obtain rerestructuring data of SPF in the beginning of life as well PTM data. This paper focuses the result of irradiation tests and post irradiation examinations.