Coupled analysis for new fuel design using un and UC for SCWR

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-65

  Chaudri, Khurrum Saleem ^a,b   Tian, Wenxi ^a   Su, Yali ^a   Zhao, Hao ^a   Zhu, Dahuan ^a   Su, Guanghui ^a   Qiu, Suizheng ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Advanced fuels; Coated pellets; Coupled analyses; SCWR; Uranium mono carbide; Uranium mono nitride

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED FUELS; ALL-CERAMIC; BI-MATERIAL; BURN UP; CENTERLINES; CLAD SURFACE; COATING MATERIAL; COATING TEMPERATURE; COATING THICKNESS; COOLANT DENSITY; COUPLED ANALYSIS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; CYCLE LENGTH; DOPPLER; FISSION GAS; FUEL DESIGN; FUEL OPTION; HEAVY METAL DENSITY; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT WATER; METAL LOADINGS; NEGATIVE VALUES; NEUTRONICS; NITRIDE CERAMICS; POWER DENSITIES; REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; SCWR; SILICON CARBIDE COATINGS; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; THERMAL NEUTRONS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER REACTORS; ZIRCONIUM CARBIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COATINGS; COOLANTS; DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FISSION PRODUCTS; FUELS; HEAVY METALS; NITRIDES; PELLETIZING; SILICON CARBIDE; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; URANIUM; URANIUM CARBIDE; WATER COOLED REACTORS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84870197198     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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