Preparation method of honeycomb fuel pellet

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of nuclear fuel preparation, and relates to a preparation method of a honeycomb fuel pellet. The preparation method which does not include a grinding stepsequentially comprises the following steps: (1) granulating: weighing raw material powder particles, filling a mold with the raw material powder particles, pre-pressing the raw material powder particles in a hydraulic machine, crushing a pre-pressed green body, sieving the crushed green body to obtain large particles, mixing the large particles with a binder, pouring the obtained mixture into a ball mill jar, placing grinding balls in the jar, and performing high-energy ball milling; (2) pressing: sieving the obtained ball-milled powder, filling the mold with the large particles, pressing thelarge particles, and demolding the pressed large particles to obtain a pellet pressed body; and (3) sintering: dewaxing the pellet pressed body, placing the dewaxed pellet pressed body in a burning boat, and placing and sintering the burning boat in a sintering furnace to obtain the finished honeycomb fuel pellet. The preparation method of the honeycomb fuel pellet of the invention has the advantages of realization of the production of the nuclear fuel pellet with a complicated shape by using the existing nuclear fuel production line, omission of the grinding process, increase of the production efficiency and reduction of the production cost.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of nuclear fuel preparation, and relates to a method for preparing honeycomb fuel pellets. Background technique [0002] At present, the most widely used form of fuel pellets in reactor fuel technology is solid cylindrical pellets or cylindrical pellets with a central hole. The conventional powder metallurgy process is generally used for processing and manufacturing. This process is relatively mature and generally includes manufacturing Granulation, pressing, sintering, grinding and other processes, the main conditions of each process are as follows. [0003] 1) Granulation [0004] The main purpose of granulation is to improve the compaction performance of pellet raw material powder, reduce the possibility of defects in compaction, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the quality of pellets. Granulation is generally the pellet raw material powder (such as the most common UO 2 Powder) is pre-presse...

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[0013] 1) The shape of the pellet is complex, the mold design is more complicated, and the pressure transmission inside the powder is more difficult. On the one hand, it leads to a substantial increase in pressing defects and a decrease in the yield of the green compact; on the other hand, the difficulty of pressure transmission leads to the uneven density of the pellet uniform

[0014] 2) The uneven compact density of the pellets leads to inconsistent sintering shrinkage of the pellets in the subsequent sintering process, and the shape of the pellets is deformed, which increases the workload of the grinding process, and at the same time, the demand for more grinding processes further enlarges the pellets Grinding scrap rate due to internal defects reduces overall pellet production yield

[0015] The above problems make the honeycomb fuel pellets unable to be produced by the existing conventional nuclear fuel pellet production process, and a new production process needs to be developed

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