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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1986
Toshihiro Matsumoto, Hitachi, JP;
Hajime Umehara, Katsuta, JP;
Junjiro Nakajima, Hitachi, JP;
Norihisa Fujii, Katsuta, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of producing a composite nuclear fuel cladding lined with a liner of high purity zirconium characterized in that a raw material of zirconium sponge disposed in a hearth cavity is irradiated with an electron beam while controlling an amount of heat per unit volume (w.sec/mm.sup.3) according to an oxygen removal rate of the raw material determined by oxygen concentration of the raw material and a target oxygen concentration of an ingot for a liner to be refined, and zircaloy cladding is lined with the liner. The hearth cavity has a preferable shape in which the ratio of the cavity surface to the cavity volume is 0.20 mm.sup.-1 or larger.