Download or read book An Assessment of Silicon Carbide as a Cladding Material for Light Water Reactors written by David Michael Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the properties and performance of a novel silicon carbide-based fuel rod cladding under PWR conditions was conducted. The novel design is a triplex, with the inner and outermost layers consisting of monolithic SiC, while the middle layer consists of a SiC fiberwound composite. The goal of this work was evaluation of the suitability of this design for use as a fuel rod cladding material in PWRs and the identification of the effects of design alternatives on the cladding performance. An in-core loop at the MITR-II was used to irradiate prototype triplex SiC cladding specimens under typical PWR temperature, pressure, and neutron flux conditions. The irradiation involved about 70 specimens, of monolithic as well as of triplex constitution, manufactured using several different processes to form the monolith, composite, and coating layers. Post-irradiation examination found some SiC specimens had acceptably low irradiation-enhanced corrosion rates and predictable swelling behavior. However, other specimens did not fare as well and showed excessive corrosion and cracking. Therefore, the performance of the SiC cladding will depend on appropriate selection of manufacturing techniques. Hoop strength testing found wide variations in tensile strength, but patterns or performance similar to the corrosion tests. The computer code FRAPCON, which is widely used for today's fuel assessment, modified properly to account for SiC properties, was applied to simulate effects of steady-state irradiation in an LWR core. The results demonstrated that utilizing SiC cladding in a 17x17 fuel assembly for existing PWRs may allow fuel to be run to somewhat higher burnup. However, due to lack of early gap closure by creep as well as the lower conductivity of the cladding, the fuel will experience higher temperatures than with zircaloy cladding. Several options were explored to reduce the fuel temperature, and it was concluded that annular fuel pellets were a solution with industrial experience that could improve the performance sufficiently to allow reaching 40% higher burnup. Management of the fuel-cladding gap was identified as essential for control of fuel temperature and PCMI. SiC cladding performance may be limited unless cladding/fuel conductivity or gap conductance is improved.

Download or read book Reactor Physics Assessment of Thick Silicon Carbide Clad PWR Fuels written by David Allan Bloore and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High temperature tolerance, chemical stability and low neutron affinity make silicon carbide (SiC) a potential fuel cladding material that may improve the economics and safety of light water reactors (LWRs). "Thick" SiC cladding (0.089 cm) is easier (and thus more economical) to manufacture than SiC of conventional Zircaloy (Zr) cladding thickness (0.057 cm). Five fuel and clad combinations are analyzed: Zr with solid U0 2 pellets, reduced fuel fraction "thick" SiC (Thick SiC) with annular U0 2 pellets, Thick SiC with solid U0 2/BeO pellets, reduced coolant fraction annular fuel with "thick" SiC (Thick SiC RCF), and Thick SiC with solid PuO2/ThO2 pellets. CASMO-4E and SIMULATE-3 have been utilized to model the above in a 193 assembly, 4-loop Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR). A new program, CSpy, has been written to use CASMO/SIMULATE to conduct optimization searches of burnable poison layouts and core reload patterns. All fuel/clad combinations have been modeled using 84 assembly reloads, and Thick SiC clad annular U0 2 has been modeled using both 84 and 64 assembly reloads. Dual Binary Swap (DBS) optimization via three Objective Functions (OFs) has been applied to each clad/fuel/reload # case to produce a single reload enrichment equilibrium core reload map. The OFs have the goals of: minimal peaking, balancing lower peaking with longer cycle length, or maximal cycle length. Results display the tradeoff between minimized peaking and maximized cycle length for each clad/fuel/reload # case. The presented Zr reference cases and Thick SiC RCF cases operate for an 18 month cycle at 3587 MWth using 4.3% and 4.8% enrichment, respectively. A 90% capacity factor was applied to all SiC cladding cases to reflect the challenge to introduction of a new fuel. The Thick SiC clad annular U0 2 (84 reload cores) and Thick SiC U0 2/BeO exhibit similar reactor physics performance but require higher enrichments than 5%. The Thick SiC RCF annular U0 2 fuel cases provide the required cycle length with less than 5% enrichment. The Thick SiC clad PuO2/ThO 2 cores can operate with a Pu% of heavy metal of about 12%, however they may have unacceptable shutdown margins without altering the control rod materials.

Download or read book Silicon Carbide Performance as Cladding for Advanced Uranium and Thorium Fuels for Light Water Reactors written by Yanin Sukjai and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an ongoing interest in replacing the fuel cladding zirconium-based alloys by other materials to reduce if not eliminate the autocatalytic and exothermic chemical reaction with water and steam at above 1,200 °C. The search for an accident tolerant cladding intensified after the Fukushima events of 2011. Silicon carbide (SiC) possesses several desirable characteristics as fuel cladding in light water reactors (LWRs). Compared to zirconium, SiC has higher melting point, higher strength at elevated temperature, and better dimensional stability when exposed to radiation, as well as lower thermal expansion, creep rate, and neutron absorption cross-section. However, under irradiation, the thermal conductivity of SiC is degraded considerably. Furthermore, lack of creep down towards the fuel causes the fuel-cladding gap and gap thermal resistance to stay relatively large during in-core service. This leads to higher fuel temperature during irradiation. In order to reduce the high fuel temperature during operation, the following fuel design options were investigated in this study: using beryllium oxide (BeO) additive to enhance fuel thermal conductivity, changing the gap bond material from helium to lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) and adding a central void in the fuel pellet. In addition, the consequences of using thorium oxide (ThO2) as host matrix for plutonium oxide (PuO2) were covered. The effects of cladding thickness on fuel performance were also analyzed. A steady-state fuel performance modeling code, FRAPCON 3.4, was used as a primary tool in this study. Since the official version of the code does not include the options mentioned above, modifications of the source code were necessary. All of these options have been modeled and integrated into a single version of the code called FRAPCON 3.4-MIT. Moreover, material properties including thermal conductivity, swelling rate, and helium production/release rate of BeO have been updated. Material properties of ThO2 have been added to study performance of ThO2-PuO2 . This modified code was used to study the thermo-mechanical behavior of the most limiting fuel rod with SiC cladding, and explore the possibility to improve the fuel performance with various design options. The fuel rod designs and operating conditions of a 4-loop Westinghouse pressurized water reactors (PWR) and Babcock and Wilcox (B&W) mPower small modular reactors (SMR) were reactors (PWR) and Babcock and Wilcox (B&W) mPower small modular reactors (SMR) were chosen as representatives of conventional PWRs and upcoming SMRs, respectively. Sensitivity analyses on initial helium gap pressure, linear heat generation rate (LHGR) history, and peak rod assumptions have been performed. The results suggest that, because of its lower thermal conductivity, SiC is more sensitive to changes in these parameters than zirconium alloys. For a low-conducting material like SiC, an increase in cladding thickness plays a significant role in fuel performance. With a thicker cladding (from 0.57 to 0.89 mm), the temperature drop across the cladding increases, which makes the fuel temperature higher than that with the thin cladding. Reduction of fuel volume to accommodate the thicker cladding also causes negative impact on fuel performance. However, if the extra volume of the cladding replaces some coolant, the reduced coolant fraction design (RCF) has superior performance to the decreased fuel volume fraction design. In general, the most effective fuel temperature improvement option appears to be the option of mixing beryllium oxide into the fuel. This method outperforms others because it improves the overall thermal conductivity and reduces the overall temperature of the fuel. With lower fuel temperature, fission gas release and eventually plenum pressure -- one of the most life-limiting factor for SiC -- can be lowered.

Download or read book Accident Tolerant Materials for Light Water Reactor Fuels written by Raul B. Rebak and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accident Tolerant Materials for Light Water Reactor Fuels provides a description of what an accident tolerant fuel is and the benefits and detriments of each concept. The book begins with an introduction to nuclear power as a renewable energy source and the current materials being utilized in light water reactors. It then moves on to discuss the recent advancements being made in accident tolerant fuels, reviewing the specific materials, their fabrication and implementation, environmental resistance, irradiation behavior, and licensing requirements. The book concludes with a look to the future of new power generation technologies. It is written for scientists and engineers working in the nuclear power industry and is the first comprehensive work on this topic. - Introduces the fundamental description of accident tolerant fuel, including fabrication and implementation - Describes both the benefits and detriments of the various Accident Tolerant Fuel concepts - Includes information on the process of materials selection with a discussion of how and why specific materials were chosen, as well as why others failed

Download or read book Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems Water Reactors written by John H. Jackson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 2460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set represents a collection of papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors. The purpose of this conference series is to foster an exchange of ideas about problems and their remedies in water-cooled nuclear power plants of today and the future. Contributions cover problems facing nickel-based alloys, stainless steels, pressure vessel and piping steels, zirconium alloys, and other alloys in water environments of relevance. Components covered include pressure boundary components, reactor vessels and internals, steam generators, fuel cladding, irradiated components, fuel storage containers, and balance of plant components and systems.

Download or read book Systematic Technology Evaluation Program for SiC SiC Composite based Accident Tolerant LWR Fuel Cladding and Core Structures M2FT 14OR0202244 written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuels and core structures in the current light water reactors (LWR's) are vulnerable to catastrophic consequences in the event of loss of coolant or active cooling, as unfortunately evidenced by the March 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident [1-3]. This vulnerability is attributed primarily to the rapid oxidation kinetics of zirconium alloys in a water vapor environment at very high temperatures [1, 4]. Current LWR's use Zr alloys nearly exclusively as the materials for fuel cladding and core structures. Among the candidate alternative materials for the LWR fuel clads and core structures to enable so-called accident-tolerant fuels (ATF) and accident-tolerant cores (ATC), silicon carbide (SiC) - based materials, in particular continuous SiC fiber-reinforced SiC matrix ceramic composites (SiC/SiC composites or SiC composites), are considered to provide outstanding passive safety features in beyond-design basis severe accident scenarios [3, 5, 6]. The SiC/SiC composites are anticipated to provide additional benefits over the zirconium alloys, including the smaller neutron cross sections, general chemical inertness, ability to withstand higher fuel burn-ups and higher temperatures, exceptional inherent radiation resistance, lack of progressive irradiation growth, and low induced-activation / low decay heat [7]. SiC/SiC composites are finding specialty applications as industrial materials as they mature and their application technologies grow [8]. Moreover, SiC and SiC/SiC composites are among the materials that have most extensively been studied for the effects of irradiation for nuclear applications.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings written by Jingyang Wang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding of the 42nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings Volume 39, Issue 3, 2018 Jingyang Wang, Waltraud Kriven, Tobias Fey, Paolo Colombo, William J. Weber, Jake Amoroso, William G. Fahrenholtz, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Michael Halbig, Soshu Kirihara, Yiquan Wu, and Kathleen Shurgart, Editors Valerie Wiesner and Manabu Fukushima, Volume Editors This proceedings contains a collection of 22 papers from The American Ceramic Society’s 42nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2018. This issue includes papers presented in the following symposia: • Advancing Frontiers of Ceramics for Sustainable Societal Development – International Symposium in Honor of Dr. Mrityunjay Singh • Symposium 9: Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications • Symposium 10: Virtual Materials (Computational) Design and Ceramic Genome • Symposium 12 Materials for Extreme Environments: Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) and Nano-laminated Ternary Carbides and Nitrides (MAX Phases) • Symposium 13 Advanced Ceramics and Composites for Nuclear Fission and Fusion Energy • Symposium 14 Crystalline Materials for Electrical, Optical and Medical Applications • Symposium 15 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies • Symposium 16: Geopolymers, Inorganic Polymers and Sustainable Materials • Focused Session 1: Bio-inspired Processing of Advanced Materials • 7th Global Young Investigator Forum

Download or read book Three Mile Island Chernobyl and Fukushima written by Thomas Filburn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the three most well-known and socially important nuclear accidents. Each of these accidents had significant, yet dramatically different, human and environmental impacts. Unique factors helped shape the overall pattern and scale of each disaster, but a major contributing factor was the different designs used for each reactor. Fukushima was a boiling water reactor (BWR), Chernobyl was a graphite moderated boiling water reactor, and TMI was a pressurized water reactor (PWR). This book traces the history of nuclear power and the development of each reactor type. We examine how GE’s work with a sodium cooled design did not fare well with the US Navy, and led GE to promulgate the BWR design. We explore the Russian atomic bomb program, its use of graphite moderated reactors, and their design modifications to create power production units. We trace the developments in the US that led the US Navy to select the PWR design, and caused the PWR to be used for nearly 2/3 of all US commercial reactors. In sum, the book uses the three major nuclear accidents as a lens to trace the technological history of nuclear energy production and to link these developments with long-term societal and environmental consequences. The book is intended for readers with an interest in nuclear power and nuclear disasters. The detailed and compelling account will appeal to both the expert and the interested lay-person.

Download or read book Advanced Measurements of Silicon Carbide Ceramic Matrix Composites written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon carbide (SiC) is being considered as a fuel cladding material for accident tolerant fuel under the Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Division of the Department of Energy. Silicon carbide has many potential advantages over traditional zirconium based cladding systems. These include high melting point, low susceptibility to corrosion, and low degradation of mechanical properties under neutron irradiation. In addition, ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) made from SiC have high mechanical toughness enabling these materials to withstand thermal and mechanical shock loading. However, many of the fundamental mechanical and thermal properties of SiC CMCs depend strongly on the fabrication process. As a result, extrapolating current materials science databases for these materials to nuclear applications is not possible. The?Advanced Measurements? work package under the LWRS fuels pathway is tasked with the development of measurement techniques that can characterize fundamental thermal and mechanical properties of SiC CMCs. An emphasis is being placed on development of characterization tools that can used for examination of fresh as well as irradiated samples. The work discuss in this report can be divided into two broad categories. The first involves the development of laser ultrasonic techniques to measure the elastic and yield properties and the second involves the development of laser-based techniques to measurement thermal transport properties. Emphasis has been placed on understanding the anisotropic and heterogeneous nature of SiC CMCs in regards to thermal and mechanical properties. The material properties characterized within this work package will be used as validation of advanced materials physics models of SiC CMCs developed under the LWRS fuels pathway. In addition, it is envisioned that similar measurement techniques can be used to provide process control and quality assurance as well as measurement of in-service degradation. Examples include composite density, distribution of porosity, fiber-matrix bond character, uniformity of weave, physical damage, and joint quality at interface bonds.

Download or read book Role of Defects in Swelling and Creep of Irradiated SiC written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon carbide is a promising cladding material because of its high strength and relatively good corrosion resistance. However, SiC is brittle and therefore SiC-based components need to be carefully designed to avoid cracking and failure by fracture. In design of SiC-based composites for nuclear reactor applications it is essential to take into account how mechanical properties are affected by radiation and temperature, or in other words, what strains and stresses develop in this material due to environmental conditions. While thermal strains in SiC can be predicted using classical theories, radiation-induced strains are much less understood. In particular, it is critical to correctly account for radiation swelling and radiation creep, which contribute significantly to dimensional instability of SiC under radiation. Swelling typically increases logarithmically with radiation dose and saturates at relatively low doses (damage levels of a few dpa). Consequently, swelling-induced stresses are likely to develop within a few months of operation of a reactor. Radiation-induced volume swelling in SiC can be as high as 2%, which is significantly higher than the cracking strain of 0.1% in SiC. Swelling-induced strains will lead to enormous stresses and fracture, unless these stresses can be relaxed via some other mechanism. An effective way to achieve stress relaxation is via radiation creep. Although it has been hypothesized that both radiation swelling and radiation creep are driven by formation of defect clusters, existing models for swelling and creep in SiC are limited by the lack of understanding of specific defects that form due to radiation in the range of temperatures relevant to fuel cladding in light water reactors (LWRs) (

Download or read book Vapor deposited Chromium Coatings on Silicon Carbide Fuel Cladding written by Kyle Quillin and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chromium coatings are under investigation to mitigate the hydrothermal corrosion of silicon carbide fiber-reinforced silicon carbide matrix composite (SiC-SiCf) fuel cladding in light water reactors. A variety of direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS) and high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) processes were used to deposit Cr coatings 5-10 [mu]m thick on SiC substrates. This research employs multi-scale materials characterization and testing approaches in harsh conditions to understand the scientific phenomena that govern the relationships between the deposition process and coating structure and properties with respect to the important performance considerations necessary for the Cr coatings. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that energetic ions produced during HiPIMS deposition improved the coating density compared to DCMS and induced a nanoscale layer of atomic mixing between the Cr coating and SiC substrate. Analysis of the interfacial mixing layer was supported with high resolution chemical analysis and a dynamic Monte Carlo simulation of interfacial compositional evolution during the initial stages of deposition. The effect of thermal exposure on the residual stress state of the Cr coatings was investigated using in situ high temperature X-ray diffraction. It was found that at 300 °C, a coating deposited with bipolar HiPIMS (B-HiPIMS) is under a compressive residual stress, which likely increases the durability of the coating during reactor operation. Through nanoindentation and post-test characterization of indentation pile-up, it was observed that the B-HiPIMS coating deformed in a ductile manner on account of its coarse columnar grain structure and high density, allowing it to accommodate dimensional changes of the cladding without fracture. In hydrothermal corrosion testing, it was found that addition of hydrogen to the coolant reduced the rate of corrosion reactions are produced a corrosion product richer in Cr-oxide rather than Cr-hydroxide. All adherent Cr coatings successfully prevented corrosion of the underlying SiC. A 20 nm-thick, Cr-rich amorphous layer formed at the interface after irradiation with 80 MeV Xe26+ ions. Through a combination of modeling approaches, it was shown that the synergistic effects of intrinsic radiation damage in Cr and ballistic mixing of Si and C across the interface eventually lead to the destabilization of the crystalline Cr-Si-C mixture.

Download or read book Joining of Ceramics written by M.G. Nicholas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the methods used and the types of bonding that occur in the joining of ceramics to glass or metals, both on surfaces and at joints. The book deals with both the physical and chemical aspects of the bonding.

Download or read book Evaluation of Multilayer Silicon Carbide Composite Cladding Under Loss of Coolant Accident Conditions written by Gregory Welch Daines and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon carbide (SiC) has been proposed as an alternative to zirconium alloys used in current light water reactor (LWR) fuel cladding because it exhibits superior corrosion characteristics, high-temperature strength, and a 1000°C higher melting temperature, all of which are important during a loss of coolant accident (LOCA). To improve the performance of SiC cladding, a multilayered architecture consisting of layers of monolithic SiC (mSiC) and SiC/SiC ceramic matrix composite (CMC) has been proposed. In this work, the mechanical performance of both the tubing and the endplug joint of two-layer SiC cladding is investigated under conditions associated with the LOCA. Specifically, SiC cladding mechanical performance is investigated after exposure to 1,400°C steam and after quenching from 1,200°C into either 100°C or 90°C atmospheric-pressure water. The samples consist of two-layer SiC, with an inner SiC/SiC CMC layer and an outer monolith SiC layer. The relationship between mechanical performance and sample architecture is investigated through ceramography and internal void characterization. The two-layered SiC cladding design offered an as-received failure hoop stress of about 600 MPa, with little strength reduction due to thermal shock, and the tube failure hoop stress remained above 200 MPa after 48 hour high-temperature steam oxidation. The cladding showed pseudo-ductile behavior and failed in a non-frangible manner. The designs investigated for joint strength offered as-received burst strength above 30 MPa, although the impact of thermal shock and oxidation showed possible dependence on architecture. Overall, the cladding showed promising accident-tolerant performance. Because the implementation of SiC is complicated by the need for an open gap and low plenum pressure, thorium-based mixed oxides (MOX) are a promising fuel for SiC cladding because they have higher thermal conductivity and lower fission gas release (FGR). Previous efforts at MIT have modified the FRAPCON code to include thorium MOX fuel. In this work, the fission gas release and thermal conductivity models of FRAPCON-3.4-MIT are validated against published data. The results of this validation indicate a need to update the FGR model, which was accomplished in this work.

Download or read book Assessment of Silicon Carbide Composites for Advanced Salt Cooled Reactors written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advanced High-Temperature Reactor (AHTR) is a new reactor concept that uses a liquid fluoride salt coolant and a solid high-temperature fuel. Several alternative fuel types are being considered for this reactor. One set of fuel options is the use of pin-type fuel assemblies with silicon carbide (SiC) cladding. This report provides (1) an initial viability assessment of using SiC as fuel cladding and other in-core components of the AHTR, (2) the current status of SiC technology, and (3) recommendations on the path forward. Based on the analysis of requirements, continuous SiC fiber-reinforced, chemically vapor-infiltrated SiC matrix (CVI SiC/SiC) composites are recommended as the primary option for further study on AHTR fuel cladding among various industrially available forms of SiC. Critical feasibility issues for the SiC-based AHTR fuel cladding are identified to be (1) corrosion of SiC in the candidate liquid salts, (2) high dose neutron radiation effects, (3) static fatigue failure of SiC/SiC, (4) long-term radiation effects including irradiation creep and radiation-enhanced static fatigue, and (5) fabrication technology of hermetic wall and sealing end caps. Considering the results of the issues analysis and the prospects of ongoing SiC research and development in other nuclear programs, recommendations on the path forward is provided in the order or priority as: (1) thermodynamic analysis and experimental examination of SiC corrosion in the candidate liquid salts, (2) assessment of long-term mechanical integrity issues using prototypical component sections, and (3) assessment of high dose radiation effects relevant to the anticipated operating condition.

Download or read book SiC MODIFICATIONS TO MELCOR FOR SEVERE ACCIDENT ANALYSIS APPLICATIONS written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) Light Water Reactor (LWR) Sustainability Program encompasses strategic research focused on improving reactor core economics and safety margins through the development of an advanced fuel cladding system. The Fuels Pathway within this program focuses on fuel system components outside of the fuel pellet, allowing for alteration of the existing zirconium-based clad system through coatings, addition of ceramic sleeves, or complete replacement (e.g. fully ceramic cladding). The DOE-NE Fuel Cycle Research & Development (FCRD) Advanced Fuels Campaign (AFC) is also conducting research on materials for advanced, accident tolerant fuels and cladding for application in operating LWRs. To aide in this assessment, a silicon carbide (SiC) version of the MELCOR code was developed by substituting SiC in place of Zircaloy in MELCOR's reactor core oxidation and material property routines. The purpose of this development effort is to provide a numerical capability for estimating the safety advantages of replacing Zr-alloy components in LWRs with SiC components. This modified version of the MELCOR code was applied to the Three Mile Island (TMI-2) plant accident. While the results are considered preliminary, SiC cladding showed a dramatic safety advantage over Zircaloy cladding during this accident.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 2023 Water Reactor Fuel Performance Meeting written by Jianqiao Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Water Reactor Fuel Performance Meeting (WRFPM) held in Asia has merged with TopFuel in Europe and LWR Fuel Performance in the United States to form the globally most influential conference in the field of nuclear fuel research. WRFPM2023 is organized by Chinese Nuclear Society (CNS) in cooperation with the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ), Korean Nuclear Society (KNS), European Nuclear Society (ENS), American Nuclear Society (ANS), the Interna-tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with the support from China Nuclear Energy In¬dustry Corporation (CNEIC) and TVEL. Conference Topics: 1. Advances in water reactor fuel technology and testing 2. Operation and experience 3. Transient and off-normal fuel behaviour and safety related issues 4. Fuel cycle, used fuel storage and transportation 5. Innovative fuel and related issues 6. Fuel modelling, analysis and methodology

Download or read book Ceramic Matrix Composites written by Narottam P. Bansal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive source of information on various aspects of ceramic matrix composites (CMC). It covers ceramic and carbon fibers; the fiber-matrix interface; processing, properties and industrial applications of various CMC systems; architecture, mechanical behavior at room and elevated temperatures, environmental effects and protective coatings, foreign object damage, modeling, life prediction, integration and joining. Each chapter in the book is written by specialists and internationally renowned researchers in the field. This book will provide state-of-the-art information on different aspects of CMCs. The book will be directed to researchers working in industry, academia, and national laboratories with interest and professional competence on CMCs. The book will also be useful to senior year and graduate students pursuing degrees in ceramic science and engineering, materials science and engineering, aeronautical, mechanical, and civil or aerospace engineering. Presents recent advances, new approaches and discusses new issues in the field, such as foreign object damage, life predictions, multiscale modeling based on probabilistic approaches, etc. Caters to the increasing interest in the application of ceramic matrix composites (CMC) materials in areas as diverse as aerospace, transport, energy, nuclear, and environment. CMCs are considered ans enabling technology for advanced aeropropulsion, space propulsion, space power, aerospace vehicles, space structures, as well as nuclear and chemical industries. Offers detailed descriptions of ceramic and carbon fibers; fiber-matrix interface; processing, properties and industrial applications of various CMC systems; architecture, mechanical behavior at room and elevated temperatures, environmental effects and protective coatings, foreign object damage, modeling, life prediction, integration/joining.