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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
W. E. Pennell
Nuclear Technology | Volume 16 | Number 1 | October 1972 | Pages 332-353
Technical Paper | Reactor Materials Performance / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31199
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Core restraint system design experience has shown the irradiation creep and swelling design equations to be valuable design tools. The principal difficulty encountered in using these equations occurs when the two effects must be superposed, particularly when creep is used to offset the effects of swelling. The difficulty arises due to the wide range of results obtainable within the swelling-creep confidence limit envelope. An improved understanding of swelling-creep superposition behavior would be of considerable benefit to the core restraint system designer. The slit-tube test offers a near term means of obtaining some swelling-creep superposition data.