Download or read book The EBR II Fuel Cycle Story written by Charles E. Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive volume, Stevenson recounts the history of the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II), the Fuel Cycle Facility (FCF), and the process requirements of this unique technology. The author also explains the reasons behind the remarkable success of both the EBR-II and the FCF. These data, presented as a useful information source, should be of considerable significance to the continuing development of nuclear power.
Download or read book Nuclear Criticality Control in the EBR II Fuel Cycle Facility written by J. C. Hesson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation has been made of criticality problems which might be encountered in EBR-II Fuel Cycle Facility. The purpose of the investigation was to determine quantity and configuration limits of the investigation was to determine quantity and configuration limits for EBR-II fuel of the first core composition during storage, handling and processing of this fuel material in the EBR-II Fuel Cycle Facility. Brief consideration in processing future EBR-II cores which are expected to contain plutonium as a fissionable matrial.
Download or read book The Design and Construction of the EBR II Initial Fuel Loading Facility written by James E. Ayer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for the first core for EBR-II resulted in the design and construction of the Initial Fuel Loading Facility for this reactor. The plant was built to provide the required initial loading, to train personnel, and to test prototype equipment for the remote reprocessing of fuel materials in the EBR- II Fuel Cycle Facility. The facilities include: remotely manipulated melting, casting, and pin processing equipment, a degreaser, hoods and their atmospheric control system, a gas-purification system, fuel-element-assembly equipment, mold- preparation and balance room, bonding furnaces, a maintenance shop, and a change area.
Download or read book EBR II Spent Fuel Treatment Demonstration Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For approximately 10 years, Argonne National Laboratory was developed a fast reactor fuel cycle based on dry processing. When the US fast reactor program was canceled in 1994, the fuel processing technology, called the electrometallurgical technique, was adapted for treating unstable spent nuclear fuel for disposal. While this technique, which involves electrorefining fuel in a molten salt bath, is being developed for several different fuel categories, its initial application is for sodium-bonded metallic spent fuel. In June 1996, the Department of Energy (DOE) approved a radiation demonstration program in which 100 spent driver assemblies and 25 spent blanket assemblies from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) will be treated over a three-year period. This demonstrated will provide data that address issues in the National Research Council's evaluation of the technology. The planned operations will neutralize the reactive component (elemental sodium) in the fuel and produce a low enriched uranium product, a ceramic waste and a metal waste. The fission products and transuranium elements, which accumulate in the electrorefining salt, will be stabilized in the glass-bonded ceramic waste form. The stainless steel cladding hulls, noble metal fission products, and insoluble residues from the process will be stabilized in a stainless steel/zirconium alloy. Upon completion of a successful demonstration and additional environmental evaluation, the current plans are to process the remainder of the DOE sodium bonded fuel.
Download or read book FUEL MANAGEMENT AND INVENTORY IN THE EBR II FUEL CYCLE written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fabrication of Driver fuel Elements for EBR II written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Breeder Reactor No. II (EBR-II), initially designed, built, and operated as a demonstration fast-neutron power reactor with an integral fuel cycle facility, has been operated as an LMFBR irradiation test facility for approximately the past fourteen years. The initial core loading and subsequent fuel has been fabricated by Argonne National Laboratory and two commercial vendors. Fuel-fabrication techniques, equipment, and procedures currently in use were originally developed for the recycle of irradiated EBR-II fuel in the remotely operated ANL Fuel Cycle Facility. Fuel-element design has undergone several changes to obtain better performance and extended burnup. Correspondingly, fuel-fabrication techniques have been modified and refined, and the process has been placed in conformance with new administrative, safety, quality-assurance, and safeguards requirements.
Download or read book IFR Fuel Cycle Demonstration in the EBR II Fuel Cycle Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Design and Construction of the EBR II Initial Fuel Loading Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for the first core for EBR-11 resulted in the design and construction of the Initial Fuel Loading Facility for this reactor. The plant was built to provide the required initial loading, to train personnel, and to test prototype equipment for the remote reprocessing of fuel materials in the EBR- II Fuel Cycle Facility. The facilities include: remotely manipulated melting, casting, and pin processing equipment, a degreaser, hoods and their atmospheric control system, a gas-purification system, fuelelement-assembly equipment, mold- preparation and balance room, bonding furnaces, a maintenance shop, and a change area. (auth).
Download or read book Revised EBR II Flowsheet for Fuel Cycle with Fuel Purification by Oxidative Slagging written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experience with Lifetime Limits for EBR II Core Components written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 2 (EBR-II) is operated for the US Department of Energy by Argonne National Laboratory and is located on the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory where most types of American reactor were originally tested. EBR-II is a complete electricity-producing power plant now in its twenty-fourth year of successful operation. During this long history the reactor has had several concurrent missions, such as demonstration of a closed Liquid-Metal Reactor (LMR) fuel cycle (1964-69); as a steady-state irradiation facility for fuels and materials (1970 onwards); for investigating effects of operational transients on fuel elements (from 1981); for research into the inherent safety aspects of metal-fueled LMR's (from 1983); and, most recently, for demonstration of the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) concept using U-Pu-Zr fuels. This paper describes experience gained at EBR-II in defining lifetime limits for LMR core components, particularly fuel elements.
Download or read book Development and Evaluation of Prototype Remote controlled Sodium bonding and Bond inspection Processes for EBR II Fuel Cycle Facility written by Thomas C. Carmeron and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EBR-II plant includes an integral, remote-controlled Fuel Cycle Facility wherein spent fuel elements are to be pyro-metallurgically refined, re-fabricated, inspected, and reassembled for return to the reactor. A description is given of the experimentally supported changes and refinements made in the prototype sodium-bonding and bond-inspection equipment to ensure: (1) acceptable fuel elements for the initial core loading; and (2) equally acceptable elements in production quantities in the parent installation. More specifically, the mode of imparting bonding energy to the fuel element was changed from a vibratory action to a series of timed impacts. This reflected an increase in the yield of acceptable elements and a reduction of machine operation time. A nondestructive, eddy-current instrument was developed and demonstrated as capable of detecting all defects in the liquid sodium bond.
Download or read book Summary Report on Irradiation of Prototype EBR II Fuel Elements written by J. H. Monaweck and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the series of irradiations performed in the CP-5, MTR, and ETR on promising prototype EBR-II fuel elements. The exposure history and the effects of irradiation are described and illustrated photographically. These include dimensional and density changes, fission gas buildup, and fission product contamination of the sodium thermal bond, as a function of fuel burnup and operating temperature. The lesser physical changes evidenced by the stainless steel-clad uranium-fissium alloy support its superiority over the zirconium-uranium alloy, and ultimate selection for the initial core loading of the EBR-II.
Download or read book Development of a Process for Sodium Bonding of EBR II Fuel and Blanket Elements written by Edmund S. Sowa and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Procedures for assembling EBR-II fuel elements with annular sodium bonds between the uranium rods and the stainless steel claddings are outlined. The results of several meltdown and uranium-settling experiments are given. Bonding experiments were performed: furnace bonding, submerged canning, ultrasonic bonding, centrifuging, pressure pulsing, and vibratory bonding. Vibratory bonding was chosen for the production of the first EBR-II core.
Download or read book Fuel Management and Handling written by and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers advances in nuclear fuel handling and fuel management and assesses their impact in increasing reactor availability
Download or read book IFR Fuel Cycle Demonstration in the EBR II Fuel Cycle Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next major milestone of the IFR program is engineering-scale demonstration of the pyroprocess fuel cycle. The EBR-II Fuel Cycle Facility has just entered a startup phase which includes completion of facility modifications, and installation and cold checkout of process equipment. This paper reviews the design and construction of the facility, the design and fabrication of the process equipment, and the schedule and initial plan for its operation. 5 refs., 4 figs.
Download or read book Fabrication of EBR II Core I Fuel Elements written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities in a program to assemble and test jacketed fuel rods and multi-rod fuel rod assemblies for EBR-II are reported. Other work is reported on evaluation of the manufacturing techniques proposed for the EBR-II cycle in a sustained operation and on remotely operable equipment under production conditions. Data on fabrication and assembly of fuel rods and assemblies are included. A total of 10,781 fully inspected fuel rods were fabricated for EBR-II core by processes adaptable to remote operation.
Download or read book The EBR II Spent Fuel Treatment Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argonne National Laboratory has refurbished and equipped an existing hot cell facility for demonstrating a high-temperature electrometallurgical process for treating spent nuclear fuel from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-11. Two waste forms will be produced and qualified for geologic disposal of the fission and activation products. Relatively pure uranium will be separated for storage. Following additional development, transuranium elements will be blended into one of the high-level waste streams. The spent fuel treatment program will help assess the viability of electrometallurgical technology as a spent fuel management option.
