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A. A. Solomon, R. H. Gebner
Nuclear Technology | Volume 13 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 177-184
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31052
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The design, testing, and operation of an instrumented capsule used to study fission-induced creep of stoichiometric enriched UO2 helices are described. Preliminary data are reported for a specimen of 1.82% 235U enrichment that was irradiated in the General Electric Test Reactor. A large primary creep component was observed under a load of 211 g (equivalent to an outer fiber shear stress of 2890 psi) at a fission rate of 2.6 × 1012 fissions/(cm3 sec) and a maximum specimen temperature of 103°C. Extrapolation of the straintime creep data yielded a steady-state shear strain rate of ∼6 × 10−6/h at the outer fibers. Anelastic strain was also observed when the specimen was unloaded and subsequently irradiated.