Modeling and Simulation of Used Nuclear Fuel During Transportation with Consideration of Hydride Effects and Cyclic Fatigue [electronic resource]
Fuel Transportation; Hydriding; Used Nuclear Fuel Loading.
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy,
2015.
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| Summary: | Fuel Transportation; Hydriding; Used Nuclear Fuel Loading. |
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| Abstract: | The objective of this work is to understand the integrity of Used Nuclear Fuel (UNF) during transportation. Previous analysis work has been performed to look at the integrity of UNF during transportation but these analyses have neglected to analyze the effect of hydrides and flaws (fracture mechanics models to capture radial cracking in the cladding). In this study, the clad regions of interest are near the pellet-pellet interfaces. These regions can experience more complex stress-states than the rest of the clad during cooling and have a greater possibility to develop radially reoriented hydrides during vacuum drying. |
| Item Description: | Published through SciTech Connect. 09/30/2015. "inl/ext--15-36697" Pritam Chakraborty; Piyush Sabharwall; Robert Edward Spears; Justin Leigh Coleman; Kadir Sener; Amit H. Varma. |
| Physical Description: | 47 p. : digital, PDF file. |