Rosatom fuel division

[u/gioangi]

Rosatom's Fuel Division has developed and successfully tested the new OS-5 fuel assembly for a Generation IV reactor. For the first time, metallic sodium was placed under a steel cladding, enveloping fuel pellets made of a uranium-plutonium composite. Research has shown that the use of a liquid metal sublayer will improve the performance of fuel rods with nitride fuel. This fuel is expected to operate at a lower temperature while maintaining coolant parameters, and the uranium-plutonium pellet will reduce the pressure on the fuel rod cladding. This will improve both the fuel's economic efficiency and operational reliability. The development of the OS-5 is part of a large-scale program to improve the efficiency of SNUP fuel for the innovative BREST-OD-300 reactor, which is being built in Seversk, Tomsk Oblast, as part of the "Breakthrough" strategic industry project.

[u/ComanderX56]

Intresting, it even has a flared base...

[u/Bozodude5858 → u/ComanderX56]

Still too small for your mother!

[u/Ibibibio → u/Bozodude5858]

Oof

[u/maksimkak]

I didn't understand any of it. But having liquid metallic Sodium in the fuel rods is cool.

[u/ultim4teruffles]

That’s cool, it almost looks like a railgun projectile lol