b'Receipt of Accident Tolerant Fuel Lead Test Rods and Rapid PIEPrincipal Investigator: Jason M. HarpTeam Members/ Collaborators: J. Harp, N. Capps, K. Linton, T. Jordan, Z. Burns, T. Ulrich, and A. NelsonThe receipt of these LTRs will enable post-irradiation examination on a variety of near-term ATF concepts and enable the generation of essential data concerning light water reactor fuel performance at elevated burnups.O ak Ridge National Labora- used to validate fuel performance tory (ORNL) supportedmodeling codes that will be used in the receipt of two ship- eventual licensing.ments of commercially irradiatedThe first shipment arrived at the Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) leadORNL Irradiated Fuels Examination test rod (LTR) concepts from twoLaboratory on November 5, 2020, different industrial partners. Thefrom the Edwin G. Hatch Nuclear first shipment contained GeneralPower Plant Unit 1 (Hatch-1).These Electric (GE) ATF concepts and theATF LTR segments were irradiated second shipment contained West- in collaboration between the US inghouse ATF concepts.In additionDepartment of Energy, General to receiving this fuel, rapid post- Electric Research, Global Nuclear irradiation examination (PIE) wasFuels, and ORNL.The GE-2000 initiated on the GE concepts to get cask from this shipment can be a first look at a selection of seen in Figure 1.The shipment these concepts. contained 38 fully sealed segments Project Description: including 32 UO 2fuel segments clad The examination of commerciallywith Zircaloy-2 and coated with a Figure 1. The Hatch ATF shipmentirradiated ATF LTRs will generateGE proprietary coating known as arrives at the ORNL Irradiated Fuels Examination Laboratory data valuable irradiation dataARMOR and 6 un-fueled cladding industrial partners can use as inputsegments of an iron-chromium-to future licensing packages for theiraluminum (FeCrAl) alloy known as ATF concepts.This fuel performanceIronClad.Once the segments arrived data along with data from testat the facility, they were unloaded reactors and out-of-pile testing isfrom the shipping cask and 30 2021|AFC ACCOMPLISHMENTS'