Assessment at CEA of coated nuclear fuel cladding for LWRS with increased margins in loca and beyond loca conditions

LWR Fuel Performance Meeting, Top Fuel 2013

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 860-867

  Idarraga Trujillo, Isabel ^a   Le Flem, Marion ^a   Brachet, Jean Christophe ^a   Le Saux, Matthieu ^a   Hamon, Didier ^a   Muller, Sébastien ^a,b   Vandenberghe, Valérie ^a   Tupin, Marc ^a   Papin, Emilie ^c   Monsifrot, Eric ^d   Billard, Alain ^d   Schuster, Frédéric ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c Mecachrome   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUELS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; LOSS OF COOLANT ACCIDENTS; METAL CLADDING; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

BASE MATERIAL; CLADDING MATERIAL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; STEAM OXIDATION; ZIRCALOY-4;

COATED MATERIALS;

EID: 84902356388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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