Casting Uranium - 5 W/o Zirconium - 1.5 W/o Niobium Alloys Into Zirconium and Zircaloy - 2 Containers |
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3/8 Zr Crystal Analyzed appeared sound autoclave Bathtub Castings billets blowholes at core-clad Bonded to Zircaloy-2 bonding uranium cast bonding CASTING DATA core shrinkage core-clad interface Corner Radii corrosion resistance crucible Crystal Bar MgO diffusion pump ductile Zr-2 embrittlement fabrication Figure 24 Fixture for Support flat rolling fuel element Fuel Plate Globar Graphite Fixture graphite heater Graphite Mold heating elements hydrogen induction coil inductively heated Interfacial Porosity lack of bond melt microns Remarks NIOBIUM outgassing Photomicrograph of Cast Pin Castings porosity in core preheat Radiographed rhodium rupture Seamless Sectioned to Show series of castings shown in Figure Side Strip Castings stopper rod Support and Heating surface swaged Temp thermocouples top cropped Top of Casting tube furnace unalloyed uranium Uranium Alloy Core uranium core alloy vacuum furnace w/o Nb water quenching Weld Areas Zircaloy Zircaloy-2 Frame Zircaloy-2 Side Strips Zircaloy-2 strips Zircaloy-2 Uranium zirconium and Zircaloy-2 Zr Crystal Bar