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Conference Article: Czechoslovak activity in the nuclear fuel domain

Bardos, J.; Hron, M. (Ustav Jaderneho Vyzkumu CSKAE, Rez (Czechoslovakia)); Drexler, J.; Vesely, P. (Nuclear Fuel Inst., Prague (Czechoslovakia))

Abstract

In the period of searching for the most advantageous type of a nuclear power reactor suited to industrial applications in CMEA countries, CSSR concentrated, owing to the international division of work principles valid at that time, almost exclusively on the HWGCR reactor. In CSSR, a prototype of the reactor in question with a capacity of 150 MW was implemented, the manufacture of this type mastered and the necessary organizational and technical background for managing and ensuring nuclear fuel industrial manufacture relative to the reactor type developed created. Evidently, this development and the modifications in the nuclear power industry orientation affected significantly the aims in the domain of research, development and implementation of the nuclear research work effected.

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key words: burnable poisons; czechoslovakia; fabrication; fuel pellets; gadolinium oxides; performance testing; research programs; specifications; uranium dioxide; wwer type reactors
Reference:
Proceedings of an advisory group meeting held in Vienna, 27-29 November 1989
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
IAEA-TECDOC--577, pp:107-117