Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the provisions of Article 326k-12, Vernon's Civil Statutes, are applicable to San Patricio County and related questions.

Localized tensile necking and splitting of the Zircaloy-2 clad on coextruded uranium cored fuel elements may represent an ultimate exposure limit. One way to increase the total energy capability of the fuel element is to corrugate the outside cladding so its perimeter is greater than that of a circle circumscribing the equivalent cross-sectional area. Thus swelling of the core will be accommodated by bending of the cladding rather than by large cladding tensile strains. The principal purpose of the irradiation in to demonstrate that fuel with a corrugated outer cladding accommodates more swelling than a fuel with circular outer cladding and, therefore, can be irradiated with the core in the high alpha uranium temperature range to exposures greater than 2000 MWD/T. This document details a proposal that GEH-10-62 be irradiated to a maximum exposure of 3000 MWD/T or to a volume increase of 5 percent as datermined by weight measurements.