Mechanical Engineering Journal
Online ISSN : 2187-9745
ISSN-L : 2187-9745
“Nuclear Power Saves the World!” and “Powering the World, One Atom at a Time”
Research and development on high burnup HTGR fuels in JAEA
Shohei UETANaoki MIZUTAKoei SASAKINariaki SAKABAHirofumi OHASHIXing L. YAN
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2020 年 7 巻 3 号 p. 19-00571

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JAEA has been progressing to design HTGR fuels for not only small-type practical HTGRs but also VHTR proposed in GIF which can be utilized for various purposes with high-temperature heat at 750 to 950 °C. To increase economy of these HTGRs, JAEA has been upgrading the design method for the HTGR fuel, which can maintain their integrities at the burnup of three to four times higher than that of the conventional HTTR fuel. Design principles and specifications of various concepts of the high burnup HTGR fuels designed by JAEA are reported. As the latest results on post-irradiation examinations of the high burnup HTGR fuel progressing in a framework of international collaboration with Kazakhstan, irradiation shrinkage rate of the fuel compact as a function of fast neutron fluence was obtained at around 100 GWd/thm. Furthermore, the future R&Ds needed for the high burnup HTGR fuel are described based on these experimental results.

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