Fig. 2-9

Development of nitride fuel for advanced fast breeder reactors, transmutation of minor actinides, and Pu burning fast reactors (Left) Radial cross section of (U, Pu)N fuel pin irradiated at fast test reactor JOYO under joint research with JNC. (center) Appearance of (Pu, Zr)N pellets for irradiation test simulating transmutation of minor actinides. (right) Microstructure of high-purity PuN pellet prepared by carbothermic reduction. Further, (U, Pu)N pellets with high Pu content are being fabricated and important properties such as thermal conductivity are being measured.

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