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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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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.
Heinz E. Haefner
Nuclear Technology | Volume 34 | Number 1 | June 1977 | Pages 69-74
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31830
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Designing advanced fuel element concepts for fast breeder reactors and assessing by models the fuel rod behavior over the intended in-pile time require information about creeping and swelling in the nuclear fuels under in-pile conditions. For this reason, a number of in-pile facilities that allow such material data to be determined have been used at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center. These data depend not only on the properties of the fuel, above all the type of fuel and its density, but also, and in a very decisive way, on such parameters as specimen temperature, specimen loading, and burnup. A new series of experiments serves the concrete purpose of a quantitative assessment of the dependence on these parameters of carbides as potential fast breeder fuels, carbides being more susceptible to swelling than oxides. The loading of the specimen is given by the cladding restraint with the swelling fuel, and does not cause any undue expansion of the cladding of realistic fuel rods under operating conditions. This permissible