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Status of the Development and Production of Uranium–Plutonium Fuel for Fast Reactors

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A comparative assessment is given of the status of the technology for producing uranium–plutonium oxide and nitride fuel and reactor tests and postreactor studies. The additional investigations of nitride fuel required to substantiate a possible reactor core design with such fuel are noted.

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Reshetnikov, F.G. Status of the Development and Production of Uranium–Plutonium Fuel for Fast Reactors. Atomic Energy 91, 998–1002 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014811604126

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