ISO 9161:2004

Uranium dioxide powder — Determination of apparent density and tap density ISO 9161:2004

Publication date:   Aug 25, 2004

Scope

ISO 9161:2004 specifies a method of determining the apparent density and tap density of free-flowing uranium dioxide (UO2) powder which will be used for pelleting and sintering of UO2 pellets as a nuclear fuel.
The method specified by ISO 9161:2004 can be used for different UO2 powder types including grains, granules, spheres or other kinds of particles. The method can also be applied to other fuel powders as PuO2, ThO2 and powder mixtures as UO2-PuO2 and UO2-Gd2O3.