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Nuclear fuel is occasionally warranted to produce a stipulated average Mwd/ton for discharged fuel. Mwd/ton is defined as the megawatt days of heat produced per 2000 pounds of total fissionable and fertile isotopes initially present. In the history of nuclear power reactors, Mwd/ton has been a difficult number to measure accurately. Measurements performed in different laboratories are not always in agreement. A fuel burnup group is preparing tentative procedures which will help standardize the field of burnup analysis. The purpose of this report is to evaluate some of the existing methods for burnup analysis and to select, if possible, the one best suited for warranty purposes.
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The mass-spectrometric and radiochemical methods for the determination of burn-up in nuclear fuel are compared for reliability in the range of 5000 to 15,000 Mwd/ton. Neither appears to be clearly superior to the other. Each appears to have an uncertainty of approximately 6 to 8%. It is concluded that both methods of analysis should be employed where reliability is of great concern. Agreement between both methods is the best possible indication of reliable results. (auth).