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Uranium-plutonium mixed (MOX) fuel recycling in thermal reactors in Germany dates back to 1966 starting with the insertion of MOX fuel assemblies into a small prototype reactor at Kahl (VAK). In the following years different types of MOX fuel elements including island types were developed and successfully tested in the VAK-reactor and the MZFR-reactor at Karlsruhe. The insertion of MOX-fuel elements in commercial power reactors of the PWR and BWR-type followed in the early seventies. Nearly hundred MOX fuel assemblies fabricated by mechanical blending of UO2 and PuO2 were irradiated in the power reactors Obrigheim (KWO) and Gundremmingen (KRB-1).
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Thomas, W. (1995). Use of Mixed Oxide Fuel in Existing Light Water Reactors in Germany. In: Merz, E.R., Walter, C.E., Pshakin, G.M. (eds) Mixed Oxide Fuel (Mox) Exploitation and Destruction in Power Reactors. NATO ASI Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2288-9_12
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