Abstract
Cold-press-sinter pellet fuels, under development since 1954, are widely used in commercial thermal power reactors and are generally accepted as being the standard fuel type. This widespread use has resulted in the development of considerable technology related to this fuel type, and the system is reasonably well understood. If proper attention is devoted to design and fabrication, pellet fuel performs satisfactory and meets the performance requirements imposed by present operating conditions. Vibrationally compacted ceramic fuel is considered to be the most promising alternate fuel form. Although of interest since 1959 [1, 2], the effort devoted to the development of vipac fuel has been considerably less than for pellet fuel. Consequently, vipac fuel is not generally accepted for commercial application at the present time. However, the concept is of continuing interest because it possesses several potential advantages over pellet type fuel.
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