... (ATF) [ 7 ] and steam generator (SG) AFW performances analysis are presented to show how we carefully treat the details during the research. Design-basis event Current reactors Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Thermal hydraulics Materials Security 17 10 2017...

.... Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 26 10 2017 05 04 2018 Current reactors Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Radiation protection Materials Security Radiation science Nuclear reactor pressure vessels steels (RPVS) are the main components of pressurized water reactor, which...

...Shengli Chen; Cenxi Yuan The management of long-lived radionuclides in spent fuel is a key issue to achieve the closed nuclear fuel cycle and the sustainable development of nuclear energy. The partitioning-transmutation method is supposed to efficiently treat the long-lived radionuclides...

...; published online September 10, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 19 10 2017 07 04 2018 Advanced reactors Nuclear fuels Reactor Physics Transport theory Materials A nuclear accident not only damages the life and property at the time of incident but also causes the spread...

... 22 05 2018 Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Materials Selection of appropriate materials able to work for a long time in contact with flowing heavy-liquid metals (HLM = Pb, Pb-Bi, Pb-Li) at high-temperatures is a big challenge for the successful development of HLM-cooled...

... simulation results agree well with previous results. Manuscript received October 31, 2017; final manuscript received May 25, 2018; published online September 10, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Dmitry Paramonov. 31 10 2017 25 05 2018 Nuclear fuels Materials The materials of fusion...

... with a target date of November 2017. Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Reactor Physics Materials 24 07 2017 07 12 2017 Manuscript received July 24, 2017; final manuscript received December 7, 2017; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Dmitry Paramonov.The United States...

... Next generation reactors Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Materials Multipurpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications (MYRRHA) is a flexible fast-spectrum irradiation facility currently under development at SCK•CEN. The selected primary coolant and spallation target...

... July 14, 2017; final manuscript received February 13, 2018; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 14 07 2017 13 02 2018 Fuel cycle Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Radioactive waste management Decommissioning Materials Safe and steady fuel debris...

...Wang Zhu; Zhang Chungyu; Yuan Cenxi Nuclear fuel rods operate under complex radioactive, thermal, and mechanical conditions. Nowadays, fuel rod codes usually make great simplifications on analyzing the multiphysics behavior of fuel rods. The present study develops a three-dimensional (3D) module...

..., we have solved the steady-state heat conduction equation, to analyze the temperature profiles of a 12 mm diameter cylindrical dispersed nuclear fuels of U 3 O 8 -Al, U 3 Si 2 -Al, and UN-Al operating at 597 ° C. Moreover, we have also derived the thermal conductivity correlations as a function...

.... 31 10 2017 20 03 2018 Nuclear fuels Materials Uranium dioxide (UO 2 ) is the typical fuel that is used in the current nuclear power plant due to its high melting temperature and the stable fluorite structure under high dose irradiation. Fission gas atoms are produced during...

.... Manuscript received December 9, 2016; final manuscript received June 10, 2017; published online March 5, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Michal Kostal. 09 12 2016 10 06 2017 Design-basis event Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Materials Security The Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents...

.... Editor: Thomas Schulenberg. 09 04 2017 22 09 2017 Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Materials Security The fuel performance analysis codes play a very important role in the design, safety analysis, in pile and out pile test study of nuclear fuel rods...

... taken at different magnifications of the sample. Manuscript received March 27, 2017; final manuscript received July 26, 2017; published online December 4, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Thomas Schulenberg. 27 03 2017 26 07 2017 Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Materials...

... generation reactors Nuclear fuels Materials Concerns with greenhouse gas emissions and the uncertainty of long-term supply of fossil fuels have resulted in renewed interest in nuclear energy as an essential part of the energy mix for the future. To improve the current Gen-II and Gen-III nuclear...

... 06 2017 Nuclear fuels Materials The thermal conductivity of UO 2 has been investigated for decades [ 2 , 5 – 7 ]. Harding and Marting have summarized the experimental data and give the expression of thermal conductivity of unirradiated UO 2 [ 8 ]. Lucuta et al. have...

... June 15, 2017; published online xx xx, xxxx. Assoc. Editor: Brian Ikeda. Current reactors Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Materials Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU ® ) fuel sheathing could be partially mitigated via chemical reactions between iodine...

..., thermal conductivity varying with fast neutron fluence, and daily thermal heat rates imported from physics analysis using the Monte Carlo N-particle code. These two experiments were shake-down tests for the tristructural-isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles in compacts. Advanced reactors Nuclear...

... levels [ 4 , 5 ]. Hence, better passivation surface compounds can be useful for these cases. Nuclear fuels Materials 12 06 2016 28 03 2017 Manuscript received June 12, 2016; final manuscript received March 28, 2017; published online May 25, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Ilan Yaar...