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Light water reactor (LWR) fuel performance is limited by thermal and mechanical constraints associated with the design, fabrication, and operation of fuel in a nuclear reactor. These limits define the lifetime of the fuel, the maximum power at which the fuel can be operated, the probability of fuel structural failure during the fuel lifetime, and the transient performance of the fuel during an accident. The purpose of this study is to explore one technique for extending these limits; liquid metal bonding of LWR fuel. Current LWR fuel rod designs consist of enriched uranium oxide (UO2) fuel pellets enclosed in a zirconium alloy cladding. The space between the pellets and the cladding is filled at beginning-of life by an inert gas (typically helium). This gas space allows for the thermal expansion and swelling of the fuel, fission gas release, as well as the creepdown of the clad; additionally, the gap allows the fuel pellets to be inserted into the fuel rod during the fabrication process. Due to the low thermal conductivity of the gas, the gas space thernnally insulates the fuel pellets from the reactor coolant outside the fuel rod, elevating the fuel temperatures. Filling the gas s

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Author

Wright, Richard Frederick, 1958-

Publisher

1994.

Published

1994

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction