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Developing a procedure for the repeated heat treatment (resintering) of UO2 fuel pellets

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The basic parameters of testing the fuel pellets produced by powder metallurgy for resintering, which should be provided by repeated heat treatment, are stated. The expressions for calculating the pellet resintering level and describing the procedure developed at OAO Mashinostroitel’nii zavod (Elektrostal’) for evaluating the resintering of various types of fuel pellets are presented.

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  1. OAO Mashinostroitel’nii zavod, ul. K. Marksa 12, Elektrostal’, Moscow oblast, 144001, Russia

    V. V. Basov

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Basov, 2009, published in Izvestiya VUZ. Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya i Funktsional’nye Pokrytiya, 2009, No. 1, pp. 25–28.

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Basov, V.V. Developing a procedure for the repeated heat treatment (resintering) of UO2 fuel pellets. Russ. J. Non-ferrous Metals 50, 404–407 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1067821209040191

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