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NEA-1625 IFPE/GAIN.

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NEA-1625 IFPE/GAIN.

IFPE/GAIN, Gadolinia Doped UO2 Fuel Behaviour Experiment

NAME, COMPUTER, PROBLEM, STATUS, REFERENCES, LANGUAGE, AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OF EXPERIMENT

IFPE/GAIN

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
IFPE/GAIN	NEA-1625/02	Arrived	16-JAN-2023

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-1625/02	Many Computers

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3. DESCRIPTION

These fuel performance data concern 4 Gd2O3 doped UO2 rods irradiated in the BelgoNucleaire GAIN Project. The rods are identified as rods 9, 10, 11 and 12 or GD0301, GD0302, GD0701 and GD0702. GD0301 and GD0302 contain pellets doped with 3wt% Gd2O3 and rods GD0701 and GD0702 contain 7wt% doped pellets.

All rods were irradiated in BR3 to a final burn-up of approaching 40 MWd/kgU. In addition, rod GD701 underwent 2 overpower transients in BR2.

Non destructive PIE was performed at the end of each irradiation measuring: creep-down, rod and fuel length changes. After final discharge, destructive PIE was performed either at PSI in Switzerland or Windscale in the UK.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-1625/02	16-JAN-2023	Masterfiled restricted

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10. REFERENCES

NEA-1625/02, included references:

- H. Hoffmann, N. Kraus: Fabrication and characterization data of BN2 UO2-Gd2O3
fuel rods (GN 84/10).
- P. Blanpain: Intermediate non-destructive examinations on the BN2 rods 11 and
12 after BR3/4C irradiation - BR2 power transient on rod 11 and non-destructive
examinations (GN 84/13 August 1984).
- D. Van der Eecken: Fast operational transients in BR2 using PWC/CCD/VNS
devices (GN 84/14 December 1984).
- L. Mausen: Intermediate neutronic report after the BN2 rods irradiation in
the BR3/4C (GN 85/08 February 1985)
- D. Van der Eecken: Topical Report, Fast operational transients in BR2 on fuel
pins 11, 27 and 31 of the GAIN programme matrix (GN 86/24 May 1986)
- P. Blanpain: Topical Report, Non destructive examinations on rod 11 before
and after the BR2 power transient (following the base irradiation in BR3 cycle
4D1 (GN 86/25 June 1986)
- Th. Maldague: Neutronic report concerning the irradiation of GAIN Fuel Rods
in the Cycle 4D1of the BR3 Core (GN 86/29 August 1986)
- Th. Maldague, P. Brusselaers: Neutronic report concerning the irradiation of
GAIN fuel rods in the cycle 4D2 of the BR3 core (GN 88/40 October 1988)
- P. Blanpain: Final non-destructive examinations of the BN2 fuel rods after
irradiation in BR3/4D2 core (GN 88/41 November 1988)
- A.J. Manley et al.: Post-irradiation examination of three rods comprising
Task 3 of the GAIN programme: rods No 5, 12 and 29 (GN 89/50 April 1989)
- J. Reindl et al.: Destructive examinations on the BN2, GE5 and NF17 fuel rods
No 9, 10, 11, 23, 24 and 33 (GN 91/60 March 1991)

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

No specified programming language

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15. AUTHORS

Belgonucleaire

Avenue Ariane, 4

B-1200, Brussels

Belgium

Compilation: J.A. Turnbull

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-1625/02

*.his            Irradiation histories
Char-dat.txt Pre-characterization data for pellets cladding and each fuel rod
Ndt&pie.txt      Non destructive and destructive measurements
GAIN-Data-F.htm Package content
Summary.txt      Description of the irradiation
QA Report GAIN.* QA reports
Readme.txt       Readme file

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17. CATEGORIES

Y. Integral Experiments Data, Databases, Benchmarks

Keywords: experimental data, fuel pellets, fuel rods, gadolinium.