Assessment of stainless steel 348 fuel rod performance against literature available data using TRANSURANUS code
| Autor: | Alfredo Abe, M. Cherubini, Francesco Saverio D'Auria, Claudia Giovedi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Cladding (metalworking)
Zirconium Nuclear engineering Alloy chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology engineering.material 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences lcsh:TK9001-9401 Rod 010305 fluids & plasmas Fukushima daiichi chemistry 0103 physical sciences engineering lcsh:Nuclear engineering. Atomic power 0210 nano-technology Hydrogen production |
| Zdroj: | EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies, Vol 2, p 27 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2491-9292 |
| Popis: | Early pressurized water reactors were originally designed to operate using stainless steel as cladding material, but during their lifetime this material was replaced by zirconium-based alloys. However, after the Fukushima Daiichi accident, the problems related to the zirconium-based alloys due to the hydrogen production and explosion under severe accident brought the importance to assess different materials. In this sense, initiatives as ATF (Accident Tolerant Fuel) program are considering different material as fuel cladding and, one candidate is iron-based alloy. In order to assess the fuel performance of fuel rods manufactured using iron-based alloy as cladding material, it was necessary to select a specific stainless steel (type 348) and modify properly conventional fuel performance codes developed in the last decades. Then, 348 stainless steel mechanical and physics properties were introduced in the TRANSURANUS code. The aim of this paper is to present the obtained results concerning the verification of the modified TRANSURANUS code version against data collected from the open literature, related to reactors which operated using stainless steel as cladding. Considering that some data were not available, some assumptions had to be made. Important differences related to the conventional fuel rods were taken into account. Obtained results regarding the cladding behavior are in agreement with available information. This constitutes an evidence of the modified TRANSURANUS code capabilities to perform fuel rod investigation of fuel rods manufactured using 348 stainless steel as cladding material. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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