Abstract:The last test of the international Phebus Fission Product (FP) program, named FPT-3, has been performed in November 2004 at Cadarache. It used boron carbide as absorber material, instead of Ag-In-Cd in the previous tests. Such absorber material is used in power plants like BWR, VVER, some western type PWR and EPR, and the importance of its effects on the main degradation phenomena is still to be assessed.This paper relates the main experimental events issued from the test together with the interpretation work … Show more
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