GB1253636A - Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of coated particle fuel for nuclear reactors - Google Patents

Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of coated particle fuel for nuclear reactors

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Publication number
GB1253636A
GB1253636A GB08833/70A GB1883370A GB1253636A GB 1253636 A GB1253636 A GB 1253636A GB 08833/70 A GB08833/70 A GB 08833/70A GB 1883370 A GB1883370 A GB 1883370A GB 1253636 A GB1253636 A GB 1253636A
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Prior art keywords
fuel
pyrolytic carbon
layer
radon
radium
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Expired
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GB08833/70A
Inventor
David Vernon Freck
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Central Electricity Generating Board
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Central Electricity Generating Board
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Priority to GB08833/70A priority Critical patent/GB1253636A/en
Priority to FR7113816A priority patent/FR2096732B1/fr
Priority to ES390377A priority patent/ES390377A1/en
Priority to DE19712119185 priority patent/DE2119185A1/en
Priority to BE766015A priority patent/BE766015A/en
Publication of GB1253636A publication Critical patent/GB1253636A/en
Priority to US05/396,231 priority patent/US3945884A/en
Priority to US396232A priority patent/US3866043A/en
Expired legal-status Critical Current

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    • GPHYSICS
    • G01MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01TMEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
    • G01T7/00Details of radiation-measuring instruments
    • G01T7/02Collecting means for receiving or storing samples to be investigated and possibly directly transporting the samples to the measuring arrangement; particularly for investigating radioactive fluids
    • G01T7/04Collecting means for receiving or storing samples to be investigated and possibly directly transporting the samples to the measuring arrangement; particularly for investigating radioactive fluids by filtration
    • GPHYSICS
    • G21NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21CNUCLEAR REACTORS
    • G21C17/00Monitoring; Testing ; Maintaining
    • G21C17/06Devices or arrangements for monitoring or testing fuel or fuel elements outside the reactor core, e.g. for burn-up, for contamination
    • GPHYSICS
    • G21NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21CNUCLEAR REACTORS
    • G21C3/00Reactor fuel elements and their assemblies; Selection of substances for use as reactor fuel elements
    • G21C3/42Selection of substances for use as reactor fuel
    • G21C3/58Solid reactor fuel Pellets made of fissile material
    • G21C3/62Ceramic fuel
    • G21C3/626Coated fuel particles
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E30/00Energy generation of nuclear origin
    • Y02E30/30Nuclear fission reactors

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • High Energy & Nuclear Physics (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Plasma & Fusion (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Molecular Biology (AREA)
  • Spectroscopy & Molecular Physics (AREA)
  • Analytical Chemistry (AREA)
  • Ceramic Engineering (AREA)
  • Monitoring And Testing Of Nuclear Reactors (AREA)
  • Measurement Of Radiation (AREA)

Abstract

1,253,636. Fuel elements. CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD. 19 April, 1971 [20 April, 1970], No. 18833/70. Heading G6C. Nuclear reactor fuel particles are checked for leakage through the coating by testing for radon 222 emitted from radium 226 incorporated with the fuel material. The fuel particles are formed of powdered uranium oxide or carbide bound together with a mixture of radium and aluminium stearates. The fuel is encased in a first layer of pyrolytic carbon to contain fission gas products, and an outer layer of pyrolytic carbon. The testing compacts 10 are mounted within the tubular furnace, used for the carbonization process for forming the pyrolytic carbon layer, and an inert gas is circulated through 11 by the pump 12 and the decay chamber 15. Radon, which escapes from the fuel particles having a faulty pyrolytic carbon coating, duringh eating, decays in 15 and the solid decay products accumulate at the filter 16 and are detected by the alpha particle counter 17.
GB08833/70A 1970-04-20 1970-04-20 Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of coated particle fuel for nuclear reactors Expired GB1253636A (en)

Priority Applications (7)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB08833/70A GB1253636A (en) 1970-04-20 1970-04-20 Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of coated particle fuel for nuclear reactors
FR7113816A FR2096732B1 (en) 1970-04-20 1971-04-19
ES390377A ES390377A1 (en) 1970-04-20 1971-04-20 Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of coated particle fuel for nuclear reactors
DE19712119185 DE2119185A1 (en) 1970-04-20 1971-04-20 Lump or granular nuclear fuel and the method and device for its manufacture and testing
BE766015A BE766015A (en) 1970-04-20 1971-04-20 IMPROVEMENTS RELATED TO A COATED PARTICLE FUEL FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ITS MANUFACTURING
US05/396,231 US3945884A (en) 1970-04-20 1973-09-11 Fuel particles having pyrolitic carbon coating for nuclear reactors and the manufacture of such fuel
US396232A US3866043A (en) 1970-04-20 1973-09-11 Coated particle fuel for nuclear reactors and to the manufacture of such fuel

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GB08833/70A GB1253636A (en) 1970-04-20 1970-04-20 Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of coated particle fuel for nuclear reactors

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GB1253636A true GB1253636A (en) 1971-11-17

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BE (1) BE766015A (en)
DE (1) DE2119185A1 (en)
ES (1) ES390377A1 (en)
FR (1) FR2096732B1 (en)
GB (1) GB1253636A (en)

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5062119A (en) * 1990-02-02 1991-10-29 Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Detection of broken coated fuel particles in ceramic coating layer
WO2012045870A1 (en) * 2010-10-07 2012-04-12 Commissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives In situ system for the direct measurement of an alpha radiation, and related method for quantifying the activity of alpha-emitting radionuclides in a solution

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5062119A (en) * 1990-02-02 1991-10-29 Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Detection of broken coated fuel particles in ceramic coating layer
WO2012045870A1 (en) * 2010-10-07 2012-04-12 Commissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives In situ system for the direct measurement of an alpha radiation, and related method for quantifying the activity of alpha-emitting radionuclides in a solution
FR2965937A1 (en) * 2010-10-07 2012-04-13 Commissariat Energie Atomique IN SITU SYSTEM FOR THE DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF ALPHA RADIATION AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR QUANTIFICATION OF ALPHA EMITTING RADIONUCLEID ACTIVITY IN SOLUTION
US9158011B2 (en) 2010-10-07 2015-10-13 Commissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives In situ system for direct measurement of alpha radiation, and related method for quantifying the activity of alpha-emitting radionuclides in solution

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
FR2096732A1 (en) 1972-02-25
BE766015A (en) 1971-09-16
FR2096732B1 (en) 1975-07-04
ES390377A1 (en) 1974-06-16
DE2119185A1 (en) 1971-12-16

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