Abstract
The USSR and the former GDR pursued the common objective in a contract about scientific cooperation in order to project, to erect and to take in operation an automated pilot plant for the refabrication of fuel elements for the fast reactor BOR-60. The layout of the plant was determined mainly by the radioactivity and toxicity of the U/Pu oxide fuel and by the application of the procedure of electrodynamic vibration to densify the fuel. For vibrocompacting non-spherical granular U/Pu oxide fuel with a definite spectrum of particle sizes and a sufficient flowability was prepared. Relations between particle size mixture, the density and the axial density distribution of the vibrocompacted fuel column is presented by elected examples. For the quality assurance the fuel elements was controlled during the technological process and by irradiation of 11000 fuel rods fabricated between 1977 and 1986 for the reactor BOR 60.
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