AREVA NP's enhanced accident-tolerant fuel developments: Focus on Cr-coated M5 cladding

Autor: Jeremy Bischoff, Christine Delafoy, Christine Vauglin, Pierre Barberis, Cédric Roubeyrie, Delphine Perche, Dominique Duthoo, Frédéric Schuster, Jean-Christophe Brachet, Elmar W. Schweitzer, Kiran Nimishakavi

Publikováno v: Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Vol 50, Iss 2, Pp 223-228 (2018)

AREVA NP (Courbevoie, Paris, France) is actively developing several enhanced accident-tolerant fuels cladding concepts ranging from near-term evolutionary (Cr-coated zirconium alloy cladding) to long-term revolutionary (SiC/SiC composite cladding) so

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Phase transformations during cooling from the βZr phase temperature domain in several hydrogen-enriched zirconium alloys studied by in situ and ex situ neutron diffraction

Autor: Quentin Barres, Isabelle Turque, Gilles André, Jean-Christophe Brachet, Caroline Toffolon-Masclet, Raphaëlle Guillou, Jérôme Crépin, Matthieu Le Saux, Thai Le Hong, Jean-Marc Joubert

Publikováno v: Acta Materialia
Acta Materialia, Elsevier, 2020, 199, pp.453-468. ⟨10.1016/j.actamat.2020.08.061⟩

International audience; In hypothetical accidental conditions, zirconium-based nuclear fuel claddings can absorb high hydrogen contents (up to several thousand wppm) and be exposed to high temperatures (βZr phase temperature range) before being cool

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.08.061

Effect of a pre-oxide on the high temperature steam oxidation of Zircaloy-4 and M5Framatome alloys

Autor: Jean-Christophe Brachet, Antoine Ambard, M. Le Saux, Raphaël Chosson, Stéphane Urvoy, Elodie Rouesne, Valérie Vandenberghe

Publikováno v: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Journal of Nuclear Materials, Elsevier, 2019, 518, pp.386-399. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.03.023⟩

International audience; The effect of a pre-existing oxide layer formed at low temperature on the subsequent oxidation in steam at high temperature was studied for Zircaloy-4 and M5 Framatome alloys. Various pre-oxidation conditions (air at 550 °C,

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.03.023

Evaluation of Equivalent Cladding Reacted parameters of Cr-coated claddings oxidized in steam at 1200 °C in relation with oxygen diffusion/partitioning and post-quench ductility

Autor: J. Bischoff, Jean-Christophe Brachet, Philippe Bossis, T. Vandenberghe, Edouard Pouillier, G. Nony, T. Guilbert, Hervé Palancher, M. Le Saux, Raphaël Chosson, A. Lequien, Stéphane Urvoy, C. Miton

Publikováno v: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Journal of Nuclear Materials, Elsevier, 2020, 533, pp.152106-1-152106-16. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152106⟩
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2020, 533, pp.152106-1-152106-16. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152106⟩

International audience; Cr-coated M5(Framatome) cladding materials are studied and developed within the CEA-Framatome-EDF French nuclear fuel joint program as Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel claddings for Light Water Reactors. The objective of this p

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02639341

High temperature steam oxidation of chromium-coated zirconium-based alloys: Kinetics and process

Autor: Matthieu Le Saux, Elodie Rouesne, J. Ribis, Guillaume Nony, Stéphane Urvoy, Nihed Chaabane, Amandine David, Jean-Christophe Brachet, T. Guilbert, Edouard Pouillier, Julien Augereau, J. Bischoff, Hervé Palancher, Caroline Toffolon-Masclet

Publikováno v: Corrosion Science
Corrosion Science, 2020, ⟨10.1016/j.corsci.2020.108537⟩

International audience; The oxidation of chromium-coated zirconium-based alloys is studied under steam at temperatures ranging from 800 °C up to 1500 °C and for oxidation times ranging from a few minutes up to a few hours. For oxidation temperature

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https://hal.science/hal-02520055