Effects of Lower Drying-Storage Temperatures on the DBTT of High-Burnup PWR Cladding
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
The purpose of this research effort is to determine the effects of canister and /or cask drying and storage on radial hydride precipitation in, and potential embrittlement of, high-burnup (HBU) pressurized water reactor (PWR) cladding alloys during cooling for a range of peak drying-storage temperatures and hoop stresses. Extensive precipitation of radial hydrides could lower the failure hoop stresses and strains, relative to limits established for as-irradiated cladding from discharged fuel rods stored in pools, at temperatures below the ductile- to-brittle transition temperature (DBTT).
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5). Used Fuel Disposition Research and Development
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1480053
- Report Number(s):
- FCRD-UFD-2015-000008; 120761
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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