Bangor University Fuel Fabrication Facility (BUFFF)

班戈大学燃料制造设施（BUFFF）借鉴了英国的大量学术经验，结合有影响力的行业参与，提供了一个易于访问的用户设施，以推动我们在燃料研究方面的国际地位（见国际机构的LOS）。该设施将提供使用与工业有关的核燃料制造设施的机会，该设施与现有和拟议的NNUF设施高度互补。BUFFF能够对一系列核燃料和其他与核工业相关的陶瓷进行调查和研究，从粉末（部分由工业赞助商提供）到混合物，压制绿色颗粒，然后烧结体。位于BUFFF中心的烧结炉是英国和世界领先的一种设备：提供以工业上适用的方式定制烧结气氛的能力，但在实验室规模上，同时也有能力使用一系列数字图像相关技术（使用该设施开发的进一步技术）现场观察烧结过程，同时使用气相色谱-质谱（GC-MS）等技术监测烧结气氛。还包括预处理表征规定，评估诸如化学计量学和粉末粒度分布等变量。BUFFF是与曼彻斯特大学、谢菲尔德大学、布里斯托尔大学、西屋电气、AWE和国家核实验室密切合作的结果，这些机构都代表了该设施的主要用户。重要的是，这些机构拥有许多相关的NNUF设施，其他用户可以结合BUFFF条款使用这些设施。BUFFF将为英国的大学提供一个重要的教育资源——为参加CDT课程及其他课程的学生提供实践经验——这是目前在英国没有的。还将培养一个重要的在线存在，以提供教育工具和开展外联活动。用户设施的访问模型根据用户的经验水平和要求而有所不同，以便于快速访问与工业有关的材料和数据。BUFFF设施生产的材料可以将其所有权转让给能够接收材料的用户，也可以将材料借给不能或不愿拥有所有权的设施，从而大大扩大了获得燃料材料的途径。还将建立一个材料图书馆，以便为一个核法医图书馆提供试验标本，该图书馆由原子能机构支持，为从事核法医研究的其他机构的练习和研究提供材料。

The Bangor University Fuel Fabrication Facility (BUFFF) draws on a great deal of the UK's academic experience, combined with impactful industry involvement to provide an easily accessible user facility to drive our international standing in fuels research (see LOS from international institutions). This facility will provide access to an industrially relevant nuclear fuel manufacturing facility that is highly complementary to existing and proposed NNUF facilities.BUFFF enables the investigation and research of a range of nuclear fuels and other nuclear industry relevant ceramics, progressing them from powders (provided in part by the industrial sponsors) through to blends, pressed green pellets and then sintered bodies. The sintering furnace at the centre of BUFFF being a one of a kind piece of equipment in the UK and world-leading: providing the ability to tailor the sintering atmosphere in an industrially applicable manner but on a laboratory scale, whilst also having the ability to observe the sintering process in-situ using a range of digital image correlation techniques (with further techniques to be developed using the facility) whilst monitoring the sintering atmosphere using techniques including gas-chromatography-mass-spectrometry (GC-MS). Pre-processing characterisation provisions are also included, assessing variables such as stoichiometry and powder size distribution. BUFFF has been grown out of a close collaboration with the University of Manchester, the University of Sheffield, the University of Bristol, Westinghouse, AWE and the National Nuclear Laboratory, all who represent key users of the facility. Importantly, these institutions host a number of relevant NNUF facilities that other users can use combined with the BUFFF provisions. The BUFFF will provide a key educational resource to the UK universities - enabling hands-on experience for students enrolled on CDT courses and beyond - something not currently available in the UK. A significant online presence will also be fostered to provide educational tools and enable outreach activities.The access models to the user facility are varied depending on the experience level and the requirements of the user in order to facilitate rapid access of industrially relevant material and data. Material produced by the BUFFF facility can have its ownership transferred to users able to receive material or material can be loaned to facilities not able to or willing to take ownership - significantly widening the access to fuel materials. A library of materials will also be kept in order to provide test specimens for a nuclear forensics library - supported by AWE - providing material for exercises and studies at other institutions working on nuclear forensics studies.