NSUF 10-224: Hydride LWR Fuel Rod Irradiation
Three hydride mini-fuel rods were fabricated and irradiated at the MIT nuclear reactor with a maximum burnup of 0.31% FIMA or ∼5 MWd/kgU equivalent oxide fuel burnup. Fuel rods consisted of uranium-zirconium hydride (U (30 wt%)ZrH1.6) pellets clad inside a LWR Zircaloy-2 tubing. The gap between the fuel and the cladding was filled with lead-bismuth eutectic alloy to eliminate the gas gap and the large temperature drop across it. Each mini-fuel rod was instrumented with two thermocouples with tips that are axially located halfway through the fuel centerline and cladding surface. In-pile temperature measurements enabled calculation of thermal conductivity in this fuel as a function of temperature and burnup. In-pile thermal conductivity at the beginning of test agreed well with out-of-pile measurements on unirradiated fuel and decreased rapidly with burnup.
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| Polje | Vrednost |
|---|---|
| Awarded Institution | University of California-Berkeley |
| CINR Number | 224 |
| Embargo End Date | 2026-02-27 |
| Facility Tech Lead | Stuart Maloy |
| NSUF Call | FY 2010 Fall Solicitation for User Proposals |
| PI | Donald Olander |
| Project Member | Kurt Terrani - Oak Ridge National Laboratory (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5143-128X) |
| Project Member | Mehdi Balooch, senior Scientist - University of California-Berkeley (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1611-6273) |
| Project Type | Irradiation/PIE |
| Publication | Performance evaluation and post-irradiation examination of a novel LWR fuel composed of U0.17ZrH1.6 fuel pellets bonded to Zircaloy-2 cladding by lead bismuth eutectic Mehdi Balooch, Edgar Buck, Andy Casella, Peter Hosemann, Donald Olander, Dave Senor, Kurt Terrani Journal of Nuclear Materials 486 2017-04-01 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311516306043 |
| Publication | Hydride fuel irradiation in MITR-II: Thermal design and validation results David Carpenter, Gordon Kohse, Lin-wen Hu Nuclear Engineering and Design 277 2014-06-04 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002954931400346X |
| Publication | Irradiation effects on thermal properties of LWR hydride fuel Mehdi Balooch, Donald Olander, Kurt Terrani, David Carpenter, Gordon Kohse, Dennis Keiser, Mitch Meyer Journal of Nuclear Materials 486 2017-04-01 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311516305086?via%3Dihub |
| Publication | Accident tolerant fuels for LWRs: A perspective Lance Snead, Kurt Terrani, Steven Zinkle Journal of Nuclear Materials 448 2014-05-01 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311513012919#! |
| RTE Number | 224 |