Evaluation of the First Generation Dual-purpose Coatings for SiC Cladding
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
The loss of coolant and station blackout at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station highlighted the need to improve the safety margins of current and future Light Water Reactors (LWRs). Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) development is designed to find solutions to mitigate or prevent such events through improvement of fuels and fuel cladding. One promising ATF concept is the replacement of zirconium-based alloy cladding with silicon carbide (SiC) fiber-reinforced SiC matrix (SiCf-SiC) composites, due to the inherent accident resistant features of SiC. However, during normal operations, SiC corrodes in reactor coolant potentially at an unacceptable rate. In addition, it is likely for the SiC-based cladding to undergo microcracking under an applied stress, which potentially degrades the hermeticity.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1424435
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2017/318
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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