Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the
1997 International RERTR Meeting

RUSSIAN RERTR PROGRAM WORKS STATUS

V. G. Aden, B. A. Gabaraev, E. F. Kartashov, V. A. Lukichev
Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering Russia, Moscow

Abstract

The report presents the main results of works under the Russian RERTR Program carried out in the last year and plans for 1998.

Works under the Russian RERTR Program proceeded during the last year after the 19th International Meeting on RERTR held in Seoul.

It is known that the Russian Program stipulates three principle stages of the works.

Stage 1:
- development of fuel elements and fuel assemblies of VVR-M2, IRT and MR types with higher density fuel uranium dioxide.

Stage 2:
-development of high-density fuel (U₃Si₂, U₃Si, U₆Fe, UZr and others).

Stage 3:
-development of fuel elements and fuel assemblies of VVR-MS IRT and IVV-10 types with high-density fuel.

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