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- Patent Title: Fabrication method of burnable absorber nuclear fuel pellets and burnable absorber nuclear fuel pellets fabricated by the same
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Application No.: US13747685Application Date: 2013-01-23
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Publication No.: US09653188B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Young Woo Rhee , Dong-Joo Kim , Jong-Hun Kim , Jae-Jo Yang , Keon-Sik Kim , Yang-Hyun Koo
- Applicant: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Current Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Agency: Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
- Priority: KR10-2012-0020277 20120228
- Main IPC: G21C3/20
- IPC: G21C3/20 ; G21C3/326 ; G21C3/62 ; G21C21/02

Abstract:
A fabrication method of burnable absorber nuclear fuel pellets and burnable absorber nuclear fuel pellets fabricated by the same are provided, in which the fabrication method includes adding boron compound and manganese compound to one or more type of nuclear fuel powders selected from the group consisting of uranium dioxide (UO2), plutonium dioxide (PuO2) and thorium dioxide (ThO2) and mixing the same (step 1), compacting the mixed powder of step 1 into compacts (step 2), and sintering the compacts of step 2 under hydrogen atmosphere (step 3). According to the fabrication method, sintering can be performed under hydrogen atmosphere at a temperature lower than the hydrogen atmosphere sintering that is conventionally applied in the nuclear fuel sintered pellet mass production, by adding sintering additives such as manganese oxide or the like.
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