Coated-Particle Fuels in High-Temperature Reactors: A Summary of Current Applications
- 1 October 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Nuclear Applications
- Vol. 3 (10) , 599-614
- https://doi.org/10.13182/nt67-a27919
Abstract
Coated-particle fuels have been adopted for all of the current and proposed high-temperature gas-cooled thermal reactors: the General Atomic High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR), the OECD DRAGON Reactor Experiment, the German pebble-bed reactors (AVR and THTR), and the Ultra-High-Temperature Reactor Experiment (UHTREX) of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. In addition, coated-particle fuel is being considered for the British Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) in order to achieve higher fuel-surface temperatures.The design and operational characteristics of these reactors are summarized, and detailed descriptions and illustrations of their fuel elements, fuel compacts, and coated-particle fuel are presented. A comprehensive list of references is given for each reactor and its fuel.Keywords
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