Two experiments studying the standard and modified VVER fuel fabricated at the Machine-Building Plant (in Elektrostal) and PWR fuel produced according to the typical specifications were performed on the HBWR research reactor (Halden, Norway) from 1995 to 2005. The objective of these experiments was to study the effect of the structural-technological parameters on the behavior of VVER fuel in comparison with the typical PWR fuel. These studies made it possible to expand the in-reactor data base on the behavior of VVER uranium oxide fuel as well as to develop recommendations for improving the technology of its production in order to increase fuel stability under irradiation.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 113, No. 3, pp. 140–145, September, 2012.
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Volkov, B.Y., Wiesenack, W., Yakovlev, V.V. et al. Study of modified VVER and typical PWR fuel in the HBWR reactor (Norway). At Energy 113, 171–178 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-012-9613-7
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