High Burnup Fuel Cladding Materials R and D for Advanced Nuclear Systems

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-328

  Kimura, Akihiko ^a   Cho, Han Sik ^a   Toda, Naoki ^a   Kasada, Ryuta ^a   Yutani, Kentaro ^a   Kishimoto, Hirotatsu ^a   Iwata, Noriyuki ^a   Ukai, Shigeharu ^b   Fujiwara, Masayuki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fuel claddings; High burnup; High corrosion resistance; High efficiency; Irradiation effects; Lead cooled fast reactor; Nanosized oxide particles; Super ODS ferritic steel; Supercriticalwater cooled reactor

Indexed keywords

CORROSION RESISTANCE; FAST REACTORS; MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS; NANOPARTICLES; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; STEEL; WATER COOLED REACTORS;

LEAD COOLED FAST REACTOR (LFR); OXIDE DISPERSION STRENGTHENING (ODS); OXIDE PARTICLES; SUPERCRITICAL WATER COOLED REACTOR (SCWR);

NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING;

EID: 34247130867     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.2007.9711289     Document Type: Article

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