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Publikováno v:
Nuclear Engineering and Design. 324:250-259
The end-of-life (EOL) fuel rod internal pressure (RIP) is a critical parameter for assessing the performance of spent fuel during dry storage and transportation. At issue are several potential degradation mechanisms that are strongly dependent on rod
Autor:
Albert J. Machiels, C. Mallet, Q. Auzoux, Suresh Yagnik, Kimberly Colas, P. Bouffioux, B. Bourdiliau, N. Mozzani
Publikováno v:
Journal of Nuclear Materials. 494:114-126
Precipitation of radial hydrides in zirconium-based alloy cladding concomitant with the cooling of spent nuclear fuel during dry storage can potentially compromise cladding integrity during its subsequent handling and transportation. This paper inves
Autor:
Albert J. Machiels, James H. Clarke, Steven Krahn, Andrew Sowder, Bethany L. Smith, Allen Croff
Publikováno v:
Nuclear Technology. 185:192-207
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Nuclear Technology. 185:39-56
Pressurized water reactor (PWR) assembly reactivity distributions are inferred from ~600 in-core flux maps taken during 44 cycles of operation of the Catawba and McGuire nuclear power plants. The r...
Publikováno v:
Nuclear Technology. 185:57-70
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has sponsored the development of a set of benchmarks that can be used to quantify the bias and uncertainty in computed reactivity decrements due to burn...
Autor:
Albert J. Machiels, Alan H. Wells
Publikováno v:
Nuclear Technology. 179:180-188
Autor:
Albert J. Machiels, Alan H. Wells
Publikováno v:
Nuclear Technology. 176:387-394
According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s guidance based on concerns for potential channeling of neutrons between absorber particles, the criticality safety of transportation systems sh...
Autor:
A. A. Dykes, A. J. Machiels
Publikováno v:
Packaging, Transport, Storage & Security of Radioactive Material. 21:51-61
A probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) quantifies the frequency of criticality accidents during railroad transport of spent nuclear fuel casks (SFCs) in the USA. It evaluates the likelihood that undetected errors in fuel selection and/or fuel handling
Autor:
J. Y. R. Rashid, A. J. Machiels
Publikováno v:
Packaging, Transport, Storage & Security of Radioactive Material. 16:211-218
Recent studies on the long-term behaviour of high-burnup spent fuel have shown that, under normal conditions of storage, challenges to cladding integrity from various postulated damage mechanisms, such as delayed hydride cracking, stress-corrosion cr
Publikováno v:
Journal of Nuclear Materials. 270:65-73
In order to better understand the behavior of irradiated UO 2 , six fuel rods containing fuel pellets fabricated by wet and dry processes were irradiated under various power histories in the BR-3 PWR (Mol, Belgium). Subsequent to the irradiation, ext