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Conference Article: Post-Irradiation Testing of HTR-Fuel Elements Under Accident Conditions. Part 2

Herbert Kostecka, John Ejton, Wim de Weerd, Enrique H. Toscano, EC, Joint Research Centre, European Institute for Transuranium, Karlsruhe, GERMANY

Abstract

This paper is part of a series of publications aimed to provide the scientific community with a complete description of the Cold Finger Device (in German KÜFA). The KÜFA-device has been designed to test under loss-of-coolant accident conditions, the quality of fuel elements based on coated particles for High Temperature Reactors (HTR). A general description of the equipment has been provided in a previous paper. In the present paper, the cooling system, the temperature control, the sweep gas system and the calibration procedures are described in detail.

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key words: Gas Cooled Reactor, Nuclear Technology
Reference:
Proceedings of the Conference on High Temperature Reactors, Beijing, China, September, 22-24, 2004
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
HTR-2004, pp:1-9