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Method of locating a leaking fuel element in a fast breeder power reactor

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Leaking fuel elements in a fast reactor are identified by measuring the ratio of .sup.134 Xe to .sup.133 Xe in the reactor cover gas following detection of a fuel element leak, this ratio being indicative of the power and burnup of the failed fuel element. This procedure can be used to identify leaking fuel elements in a power breeder reactor while continuing operation of the reactor since the ratio measured is that of the gases stored in the plenum of the failed fuel element. Thus, use of a cleanup system for the cover gas makes it possible to identify sequentially a multiplicity of leaking fuel elements without shutting the reactor down.

Source: OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Author: Honekamp, John R. (Downers Grove, IL); Fryer, Richard M. (Idaho Falls, ID)

Language: English

Topic: Nuclear reactor physics and engineering

Subfield: Nuclear Energy and Engineering

Field: Energy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4307598419

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