Russians Achieve Milestone with New Nuclear Fuel

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 16:09:00 +0000

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Rosatom announced that it has started the fourth irradiation cycle of fuel assemblies with VVER-type fuel rods in the MIR research reactor (Figure 1) at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region. The reactor tests have been ongoing since early 2019. The rods have four combinations of cladding and fuel matrix materials. […]

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