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With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
M. Bober, H. Kleykamp, G. Schumacher
Nuclear Technology | Volume 26 | Number 2 | June 1975 | Pages 172-182
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24416
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Redistribution of plutonium has been examined in three hypo stoichiometric mixed oxide fuel pins irradiated in the fast flux of the RAPSODIE reactor. From the results of these examinations, the effective heat of transport of thermal diffusion of plutonium is estimated. The increase in central temperature is determined with plutonium distributions calculated from thermal diffusion and estimated from postirradiation examinations, respectively. In stoichiometric fuels, a temperature increase of up to 150°C must be anticipated due to plutonium enrichment by evaporation-condensation processes, while in strongly hypostoichiometric fuels the increase in central temperature, caused in this case by thermal diffusion, does not exceed 50°C for power ratings below 450 W/cm. The radial variation of the O/(U +Pu) ratio is calculated since it strongly influences the vapor pressures of the fuel component species and therefore influences the redistribution by evaporation-condensation processes.
