Challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures to mitigate high uranium density fuel oxidation: Uranium mononitride

Autor:	Brian J. Jaques, Adrian R. Wagner, Adrian Gonzales, Elizabeth Sooby, Jennifer K. Watkins
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Cladding (metalworking) Nuclear and High Energy Physics Materials science Dopant Nuclear engineering Composite number chemistry.chemical_element Uranium Nuclear reactor law.invention Nuclear Energy and Engineering chemistry law Degradation (geology) General Materials Science Corrosion behavior
Zdroj:	Journal of Nuclear Materials. 553:153048
ISSN:	0022-3115
DOI:	10.1016/j.jnucmat.2021.153048
Popis:	The challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures designed and intended to mitigate oxidation of the fuel during a cladding breech of a water-cooled reactor are discussed in three review manuscripts developed in parallel, with the presented article focused on the oxidation performance of uranium mononitride. Several high uranium density fuels are under consideration for deployment as accident tolerant and/or advanced technology nuclear reactor fuels, including one on each: UN, U3Si2, UC and UB2. Presented here is the research motivation for the incorporation of additives, dopants, or composite fuel architectures to improve the oxidation/corrosion behavior of high uranium density nuclear fuels for use in LWRs. Furthermore, this review covers the literature on the degradation modes, thermodynamics, and oxidation performance of pure UN and UN-compounds as well as reported alloyed and composite architectures.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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