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Computed Tomography and Ultrasonic Testing of Urania Fuel Pellets

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Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation

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Natural uranium dioxide nuclear fuel for irradiation in CANDU reactors is manufactured by General Electric Canada. To ensure the fuel does not rupture,pellet chipping and cracking is controlled. While not apparent in the green compact stage chips and cracks are readily observed after sintering and are generally located at the ends of the pellets

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  1. H.R. Lee, I.J. Itzkovitz and M.R. Galley, “Canada’s National Ceramic UO2 Production, Fuel Fabrication and Heavy Water Technologies”, presented at the International Conference on Nuclear Technology Transfer, Madrid, Spain, October, 1985.

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  2. B.D. Sawicka and W.A. Ellingson, in “Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation”, Vol 6A, eds. D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti (Plenum Publ. Corporation, 1987), p.421–432; B.D. Sawicka and B.J.F. Palmer, Nucl. Instr. Methods A263 (1988)

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  1. General Electric Canada, 107 Park Street North, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 7B5, Canada

    P. D. Sutton & L. R. Hillier

  2. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario, KOJ 1JO, Canada

    B. D. Sawicka

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  1. Center for NDE and Ames Laboratory (USDOE), Iowa State University, 303C Wilhelm Hall, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Donald O. Thompson

  2. Materials Laboratory, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, 45433-6533, USA

    Dale E. Chimenti

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Sutton, P.D., Hillier, L.R., Sawicka, B.D. (1989). Computed Tomography and Ultrasonic Testing of Urania Fuel Pellets. In: Thompson, D.O., Chimenti, D.E. (eds) Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0817-1_214

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