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Conference Article: Analysis and choice of characteristics of the HTGR spherical fuel elements

Grebennik, V.N.; Degal'tsev, Yu.G.; Karpov, A.V.; Ponomarev-Stepnoy, N.N.; Protsenko, A.N.; Tikhonov, N.I.; Khrulev, A.A

Abstract

The choice of the main characteristics of the HTGR spherical fuel elements was sustained. The most important properties chose were: outer sizes, weight loading and uranium enrichment, fuel kernel shape and size, coated particle kern size, conception, composition, properties and thickness of the multilayer coatings of coated particles

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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:5-18