PLUTONIUM RECYCLE BURNUP DATA AND RESULTS FROM THE BATCH CORE EXPERIMENT.
Abstract
Assemblies 11 II.Location and Irradiation History of Batch Core Samples 17 III.Initial Compositon (a/o) of Plutonium Fuel Lots 19 IV.Typical Listing of Results Obtained from the Analyses of a Burnup Sample 21 V. Cross-Section Ratios from Reactor Burnup Calculations 39 VI.Sets of Sample Data used in Least-Squares Fits 40 VII.Cross-Section Ratios Determined by Least-Squares Fits for Fuel Rods in Three Positions in a 19-Rod Assembly 42 VIII.Results of Sensitivity Tests on Cross-Section Ratios for the 12-Rod Ring Rods 47 IX.Results of Least-Squares Fits of Partial Sets of Data for the 12-Rod Ring Rods.49 X.Comparison of Calculated and Fitted Values of Cross-Section Ratios 51 XI.Summary of PRTR Fuels and Hardware Analyzed by Gamma Scanning Since Start of Batch Core Experiment 55 XII.Summary of High Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectra Collected from Batch Core Fuel Rods and Photopeak Areas Determined from the Spectra 70 A-I.Burnup Data and Results as Listed by Program ISODIL A-2 B-1.Integrated Activity Expressed as Counts per Second from Continuous Scans of FERTF Rods C-I.Gamma-Ray Activity Measurements from Intact Fuel B-7 Assemblies C-3 0-1.Gamma-Ray Spectra Collected from Batch Core Fuel Rods 0-2 11 18 19 20 iv
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