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Conference Article: Preparation of microspherical fuel kernels for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors using the mechanical spheroidization method

Voloshchuk, A.I.; Gurin, V.A.; Odejchuk, N.P.; Chajka, S.S

Abstract

Powder methods of preparing microspherical fuel kernels can be used in the production of fuel elements for high temperature gas cooled reactors. These methods are advantageous because of their simplicity as they do not require the construction of complex equipment and the granule production process is easily controlled. Characteristic properties of the preparation of fuel kernels by the method of mechanical granulation have been studied. The method is demonstrated to provide a high effectiveness in the production of high-quality fuel kernels

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key words: Gas Cooled Reactor, Nuclear Technology
Reference:
Specialists' meeting on gas-cooled reactor fuel development and spent fuel treatment Moscow (Russian Federation) 18-21 Oct 1983
International Atomic Energy Agency, International Working Group on Gas-Cooled Reactors, Vienna (Austria); State Committee on the Utilisation of Atomic Energy of the USSR, Moscow (Russian Federation)
IWGGCR--8, pp:133-139