A facility allowing to conduct experiments on dummy fuel rods up to 250 mm long, at temperatures up to 700 °C is presented. The designed facility is unique in that the conditions for the tests to be conducted on it most closely resemble (except for irradiation) those of fuel rods operation, loading and storage in SFDSF. All test parameters are programmed and regulated by special sensors, which brings the experiment on fuel rod temperature effect and pressure under the cladding as close as possible to the conditions of fuel rod operation in reactor and further storage in SFDSF. Hydride Reorientation Test (HRT) was conducted on dummy fuel rod sunder internal pressure of 3...5 MPa (at room temperature) and with hydrogen concentration of 50...300 ppm in the modes that simulate SNF handling with limiting heating to 410 °С and accidents with seven 410↔300 and 410↔180 °С thermal cycles. It has been demonstrated that the effectiveness of the influence of the test conditions in the specified modes on hydride reorientation increases with increasing hydrogen concentration and tangential stresses in the dummy fuel rod claddings. It has been shown that the test samples design, control and measurement devices, as well as the parameters estimated during the test and further investigations fully meet the test requirements.