Interpretation of high-burnup fuel annealing tests

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 639-646

  Blair, Paul ^a,b   Khvostov, Grigori ^a   Romano, Antonino ^c   Hellwig, Christian ^d   Chawla, Rakesh ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Enusa Industrias Avanzadas SA   (Spain)

^d Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Annealing; Fission gas; High burnup structure; LWR fuel; Porosity; Uranium dioxide

Indexed keywords

FISSION PRODUCTS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; STEEL ANALYSIS;

ANNEALING CONDITIONS; ANNEALING TESTING; FISSION GASES; HIGH BURN UP; HIGH BURNUP FUELS; LIGHT WATER; MECHANISTIC MODELING; POROSITY GROWTH;

ANNEALING;

EID: 46749114070     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.2008.9711463     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. M. Kinoshita, T. Sonoda, S. Kitajima, A. Sasahara, T. Kameyama, T. Matsumura, E. Kolstad, V. V. Rondinella, C. Ronchi, J. P. Hiernaut, T. Wiss, F. Kinnart, J. Ejton, D. Papaioannou, Hj. Matzke, “High burnup rim project: (III) Properties of rim-structure fuel,” Proceedings of the 2004 International Meeting on LWR Fuel Performance, Orlando, Florida, Sept. 19-22, 2004 (2004).
2. N. Lozano, L. Desgranges, D. Aymes, J. C. Niepce, “High magnification SEM observation for two types of granularity in a high burnup PWR fuel rim,” J. Nucl. Mater., 257, 78 (1998).
3. R. Manzel, C. T. Walker, “EPMA and SEM of fuel samples from PWR rods with an average burn-up of around 100MWd/kgHM,” J. Nucl. Mater., 301, 170 (2002).
4. H. J. Matzke, M. Kinoshita, “Polygonization and high burnup structure in nuclear fuels,” J. Nucl. Mater., 247, 108 (1997).
5. H. J. Matzke, J. Spino, “Formation of the rim structure in high burnup fuel,” J. Nucl. Mater., 248, 170 (1997).
6. 2 fuel,” J. Nucl. Mater., 250, 244 (1997).
7. 2 with a burnup of 7.9% FIMA,” J. Nucl. Mater., 245, 115 (1997).
8. 2 disk fuel, Nucl. Instrum. Methods B., 191, 622 (2002).
9. 2 fuels by micro X-ray diffraction,” J. Nucl. Mater., 281, 146 (2000).
10. 2 fuel discs,” J. Nucl. Mater., 288, 20 (2001).
11. J. Spino, K. Vennix, M. Coquerelle, “Detailed characterisation of the rim microstructure in PWR fuels in the burn-up range 40-67 GWd/tM,” J. Nucl. Mater., 231, 179-190 (1996).
12. J. Spino, A. D. Stalios, H. S. Cruz, D. Baron, “Stereological evolution of the rim structure in PWR-fuels at prolonged irradiation: Dependencies with burn-up and temperature,” J. Nucl. Mater., 354, 66 (2006).
13. −1,” J. Nucl. Mater., 327, 58 (2004).
14. 2 fuel,” J. Nucl. Sci. Technol., 38, 45 (2001).
15. J. Noirot, L. Desgranges, P. Marimbeau, “Contribution of the rim to the overall fission gas release: What do isotopic analyses reveal?,” Proceedings of the International Seminar on Fission Gas Behaviour in Water Reactor Fuels, Cadarache, France, Sept. 26-29, 2000 (2000).
16. 2 nuclear fuel,” Radiat. Eff. Defects Solids, 157, 311-322 (2002).
17. 2 fuel,” J. Nucl. Mater., 304, 29-49 (2002).
18. F. Schmitz, J. Papin, “High burn-up effects on fuel behaviour under accident conditions: the tests CABRI REP-Na,” J. Nucl. Mater., 270, 55-64 (1999).
19. T. Fuketa, H. Sasajima, Y. Mori, K. Ishijima, “Fuel failure and fission gas release in high burn-up PWR fuels under RIA conditions,” J. Nucl. Mater., 248, 249-256 (1997).
20. 2 structure in LWR fuel, J. Nucl. Mater., 226, 1-8 (1995).
21. 2 fuel,” J. Nucl. Mater., 295, 213 (2001).
22. 2 fuel,” J. Nucl. Mater., 321, 249 (2003).
23. J. Spino, D. Papaioannou, J. P. Glatz, “Comments on the threshold porosity for fission gas release in high burn-up fuels,” J. Nucl. Mater., 328, 67-70 (2004).
24. A. Romano, M. Horvath, R. Restani, “Evolution of porosity in the high-burnup fuel structure,” J. Nucl. Mater., 361, 62 (2007).
25. J. P. Hiernaut, C. Ronchi, “Fission gas release and volume diffusion enthalpy in UO2 irradiated at low and high burnup, J. Nucl. Mater., 294, 39 (2001).
26. J. M. Griesmeyer, N. M. Ghoniem, “The response of fission gas bubbles to the dynamic behavior of point defects, J. Nucl. Mater., 80, 88 (1979).
27. J. M. Griesmeyer, N. M. Ghoniem, D. Okrent, “A dynamic intragranular fission gas behaviour model,” Nucl. Eng. Des., 55, 69 (1979).
28. D. R. Olander, “Fundamental aspects of nuclear reactor fuel elements, Energy Research and Development Administration, 230 (1977).
29. G. Khvostov, A. Medvedev, S. Bogatyr, “The dynamic model of grain boundary processes in high burn-up LWR fuel and its application in analysis by the START-3 code, Proceedings of the International Conference on WWER Fuel Performance, Modelling and Experimental Support, Albena-Varna, Bulgaria, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2003 (2003).
30. A. C. Hindmarsh, A. H. Sherman, “LSODES: Livermore solver for ordinary differential equations with general sparse Jacobian matrices,” Mar. 30, 1987 (1987).
31. 2-Tabletten,” J. Nucl. Mater., 81, 135 (1979), [in German].
32. J. A. Turnbull, C. A. Friskney, J. R. Findlay, F. A. Johnson, A. J. Walter, “The diffusion coefficients of gaseous and volatile species during the irradiation of uranium dioxide,” J. Nucl. Mater., 107, 168 (1982).
33. T. Tverberg, M. Amaya, J. Wright, “The high burn-up disk irradiation test, IFA-655: Final report on the in-pile performance,” Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting, Store-fjell, Norway, Mar. 11-16, 2007.
34. F. Capone, J. P. Hiernaut, M. Martellenghi, C. Ronchi, “Mass spectrometric measurements of fission product effusion from irradiated light water reactor fuel,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 124, 436 (1996).
35. P. Blair, A. Romano, Ch. Hellwig, R. Chawla, “Calculations on fission gas behaviour in the high bumup structure,” J. Nucl. Mater., 350, 232 (2006).
36. 2 fuels under rapid heating conditions,” J. Nucl. Sci. Tech., 43, 1161 (2006).
37. S. M. Gehl, Release of fission gas during transient heating of LWRfuel NUREG/CR-2777, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Report, 1982.
38. 2,” J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 2, 83, 1121 (1987).