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    The document discusses MOX fuel production and characteristics, including the use of a silicon nitride vessel and microwave irradiation to produce MOX powder from plutonium oxide. It also compares the properties of MOX fuel to conventional uranium fuel and discusses different fuel designs like dispersion and intermetallic fuels using uranium with varying enrichment levels. Various fuel alloy designs are examined including U-Mo alloys and U3Si2.

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    The document discusses MOX fuel production and characteristics, including the use of a silicon nitride vessel and microwave irradiation to produce MOX powder from plutonium oxide. It also compares the properties of MOX fuel to conventional uranium fuel and discusses different fuel designs like dispersion and intermetallic fuels using uranium with varying enrichment levels. Various fuel alloy designs are examined including U-Mo alloys and U3Si2.

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    The document discusses MOX fuel production and characteristics, including the use of a silicon nitride vessel and microwave irradiation to produce MOX powder from plutonium oxide. It also compares the properties of MOX fuel to conventional uranium fuel and discusses different fuel designs like dispersion and intermetallic fuels using uranium with varying enrichment levels. Various fuel alloy designs are examined including U-Mo alloys and U3Si2.

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    MOX Production

    Silicon nitride vessel 6 cm

    50 cm

    2.45 GHz, 16 kW microwave


    Characteristics of MH-MOX powder in comparison with PuO2
    prepared by Oxalate Method
    Typical Ceramograph of MOX Fuel pellet
    Difference between MOX Fuel for FBR and LWR
    Dispersion Fuels or Intermetallic Fuels
    High Enrichment Uranium (HEU) More than 20 % U235

    Low Enrichment Uranium (LEU) Less than 20 % U235

    Unstable growth of fission gas bubbles in plate type design

    In rod-type design, it works.

    U-Mo alloys (6-10 wt % Mo) excellent irradiation behavior


    Blistering and Blister-Threshold Temperature
    Body centered orthorhombic
    Body centered tetragonal

    Ductile
    U3Si2

    10 atoms per unit cell

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