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Nuclear fuel - Less common nuclear fuel forms | | Nuclear fuel - Less common nuclear fuel forms: Encyclopedia II - Nuclear fuel - Less common nuclear fuel forms | | Various other nuclear fuel forms find use in specific applications, but lack the widespread use of those found in BWRs, PWRs, and CANDU power plants. Many of these fuel forms are only found in research reactors, or have military applications.
Nuclear fuel - RBMK fuel.
RBMK reactor fuel was used in soviet designed and built RBMK type reactors.
Nuclear fuel - TRISO fuel compact.
Tri-isotropic (TRISO) fuels were originally developed in Germany for high-temperature gas-coole ...
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| | | Nuclear fuel: Encyclopedia II - Nuclear fuel - Less common nuclear fuel forms
Nuclear fuel - Less common nuclear fuel forms
Various other nuclear fuel forms find use in specific applications, but lack the widespread use of those found in BWRs, PWRs, and CANDU power plants. Many of these fuel forms are only found in research reactors, or have military applications.
Nuclear fuel - RBMK fuel
RBMK reactor fuel was used in soviet designed and built RBMK type reactors.
Nuclear fuel - TRISO fuel compact
Tri-isotropic (TRISO) fuels were originally developed in Germany for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. In TRISO fuels, uranium carbide is usually coated in several layers of pyrolytic carbon and silicon dioxide to retain fission products at elevated temperatures. These fuels would be molded into graphite pebbles (for pebble bed reactors) or into graphite fuel rods (for prismatic core gas cooled reactors). Currently they are being used in the HTR-10 in China, and the HTTR in Japan; both are experimental reactors. TRISO fuel compacts may also be used in the PBMR design and the GT-MHR design if either design is built. The first power plant to use TRISO fuels was the THTR-300.
Nuclear fuel - CerMet fuel
CerMet fuel consists of ceramic fuel particles (usually uranium oxide) imbedded in a metal matrix. It is hypothesized that this type of fuel is what is used in US Navy reactors. This fuel has high heat transport characteristics and can withstand a large amount of expansion.
Nuclear fuel - Plate type fuel
Plate type fuel has grown out of favor over the years. It is currently used in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) at Idaho National Laboratory.
Nuclear fuel - TRIGA fuel
TRIGA fuel is used in TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactors. TRIGA fuel consists of a uranium zirconium hydride matrix. It is inherently safe in that if it reaches a high temperature, the hydrogen's cross section in the fuel is shifted to higher energies, allowing more neutrons to be lost, and less to be thermalized. Most cores that use this fuel are "high leakage" cores where the excess leaked neutrons can be utilized for research.
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