NEUP CINR-17-12549: Critical Heat Flux Studies for Innovative Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding Surfaces

Our proposal will study CHF behavior focused on innovative accident tolerant fuel cladding. Our work will employ key ATF cladding concepts being considered by DOE. Our plan includes separate effects screening tests to measure CHF for various ATF clad materials and surface characteristics with measurements of surface wettability. The Westinghouse pressurized flow boiling experiments simulate prototypical reactor conditions for evaluating the best ATF clad materials coupled with CHF modeling.

Additional Info

Field	Value
Awarded Institution	University of Wisconsin-Madison
PI	Michael Corradini