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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.
Cl. Vandenberg, H. Bonet, A. Charlier, F. Motte
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 500-506
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32358
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Within the framework of an experimental program on the behavior of gadolinium in light water reactors (LWRs), the BR3 power plant, a small 11-MW(electric) pressurized water reactor, was operated successfully with a core containing 5% Gd2O3-UO2 rods. The core reached an average burnup increase of 22 000 MWd/tM, corresponding to 500 effective full-power days in a single cycle. These results lead us to extrapolate the consequences on safety of extending such a control policy to large LWRs. In this context, the following factors were investigated: impact on the design, reactivity control and core behavior operated with lower and more constant boric acid concentration, environmental impact, fuel handling, etc. The results of this analysis suggest that studies on more elaborate models should be pursued and that the field of investigation should be broadened.