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NRC cancels advanced reactor meeting due to government shutdown
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it is cancelling an upcoming advanced reactor stakeholder meeting, originally scheduled for November 19, due to the government shutdown and the limitations on staffing at the agency.
G. L. Hofman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 7-22
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32408
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Prototypic driver-fuel elements using metallic fuel and stainless-steel cladding, designed to achieve a high burnup, were tested in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. The irradiation results showed that burnup of up to 10 at.% can be attained without cladding failure and that cladding deformation can be kept to acceptable values if Type 316 stainless steel is used as the cladding material
