Looking for a particular graphic.

Dear readers;

There’s a certain image that I’ve seen when browsing the web before which I found useful. I’m trying to find this image again, but haven’t seen any success in finding it again.

It’s a pie chart which shows the physical composition of typical used LWR nuclear fuel, showing a breakdown of x % uranium, y % Zircaloy cladding, z % hardware, w % fission products and so forth. This was notable in that it included the portion of the fuel element’s mass which is the cladding and hardware, not just the uranium oxide fuel matrix itself.

Does anybody recognise the graph I’m referring to, and know where to find it online?

Regards.

March 25, 2009 - Posted by Luke Weston | Uncategorized | | 7 Comments

7 Comments »

Luke, I think I’ve got what you’re looking for–fire me off an email.

Comment by Kirk Sorensen | March 25, 2009 | Reply
have a look at these slides, is this what you were looking for?

http://gcep.stanford.edu/pdfs/UVaodfDrAb3BdgeRCpoy-w/15-Collins-GCEP-Workshop.pdf

and

http://www.cresp.org/crespIII/NIP_presentations/WYMER_VanderbiltNuclearIntegrationProjectWorkshop_3_3_4_2008.pdf

hope this helps.

Comment by Gianfranco Unali | March 26, 2009 | Reply
and a slightly more detailed pie chart from the same study here:

http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cppr/y2001/pres/120504.pdf

and a research paper

http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cppr/y2001/misc/125539.pdf

Comment by Gianfranco Unali | March 26, 2009 | Reply
Luke, are you aware that your blog has gone all italcky?

Comment by Finrod | March 27, 2009 | Reply
You have an extra ‘em’ tag in “showing a breakdown of x % uranium…”

Comment by noname | March 28, 2009 | Reply
something wrong here. comments don’t always show up.
if someone knows luke’s email address would they please forward these links to him?

#

have a look at these slides, is this what you were looking for?

http://gcep.stanford.edu/pdfs/UVaodfDrAb3BdgeRCpoy-w/15-Collins-GCEP-Workshop.pdf

and

http://www.cresp.org/crespIII/NIP_presentations/WYMER_VanderbiltNuclearIntegrationProjectWorkshop_3_3_4_2008.pdf

hope this helps.

Comment by Gianfranco Unali | March 26, 2009
#

and a slightly more detailed pie chart from the same study here:

http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cppr/y2001/pres/120504.pdf

and a research paper

http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cppr/y2001/misc/125539.pdf

Comment by Gianfranco Unali | March 26, 2009

Comment by Gianfranco Unali | April 1, 2009 | Reply
Sorry about that confusion Gianfranco, the comments do show up, they just go into the queue for moderator approval, and I have been forgetting to check that lately so there is a little bit of a backlog.

Thanks for your help, that’s quite useful.

Comment by Luke Weston | April 20, 2009 | Reply

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