Book Description

To permit either the irradiation of two defected UO2 four-rod-cluster fuel element assemblies during the same operating period, or the irradiation of the two assemblies singly during two different operating periods in KE Reactor front-to-rear test hole 3865. The density of UO2 in one fuel element assembly is 90% of theoretical, in the other 87%. In both assemblies the fuel element cladding is Zircaloy and the fuel material natural uranium. An artificial defect will be made in each assembly before irradiation by drilling a .005 in. diameter hole through the cladding near the mid-point of two of the rods in each assembly, thus a total of eight UO2 rods, four defected and four nondefected, will be irradiated.