Continuous fiber ceramic composite cladding for commercial water reactor fuel; Final Project
This project is a research effort to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of an improved ceramics-based cladding material for water reactor fuel, which will be significantly more resistant to structural damage during a LOCA accident than the current Zircaloy cladding material. Specifically, the goal of this NERI project is to determine, via engineering type tests, the feasibility of substituting such advanced ceramic materials for the Zircaloy cladding now in use. This report presents the project research and development activities, which included prototype material design, fabrication, characterization, LOCA type of thermal shock testing, and in-reactor irradiation/corrosion testing. The report also presents the technical finding and discussions of results. The technical task were performed in collaboration with four subcontractors: The Advanced Materials Section of McDermott Technology Incorporated (MTI), the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MTI), Swales Aerospace Inc., and the Thin Film Laboratory of Northwestern University.
- Research Organization:
- Gamma Engineering Corporation
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-99SF21887
- OSTI ID:
- 781403
- Report Number(s):
- 41-FR; TRN: US0601896
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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