About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Accelerated Discovery and Qualification of Nuclear Materials for Energy Applications
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Presentation Title |
Development of Assembly Technique for Fuel Specimens for the MARCH-SERTTA TREAT Irradiation Testing Platform |
Author(s) |
Connor Woolum, Lance Hone, Korbin Tritthart |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Connor Woolum |
Abstract Scope |
The MARCH-SERTTA capsule is the latest irradiation testing platform being commissioned for irradiation testing within the TREAT reactor at INL. This capsule is designed to include a suite of seventeen instruments allowing for different measurements and controls prior to, during, and after transient testing. The MARCH-SERTTA platform is versatile in that the existing design can be modified in any number of ways to accommodate different types of tests or specimen geometries, thus allowing for rapid turnaround of irradiation experiments. This platform is currently being commissioned through a series of five TREAT irradiations. The fuel specimens within these tests include prototypical PWR fuel in a six inch specimen, instrumented with four thermocouples on the cladding surface. A significant amount of development work was required to produce an acceptable specimen; this manuscript focuses on this work associated with rodlet assembly, welding, and thermocouples attachment. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |