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Data for FUMEX: Results from fuel behavior studies at the OECD Halden Reactor Project for model validation and development

Abstract

Investigations of phenomena associated with extended or high burn-up are an important part of the fuel and materials testing programme carried out at the OECD Halden Reactor Project. The in-core studies comprise long term fuel rod behavior as well as the response to power ramps. Performance is assessed through measurements of fuel centre temperature, rod pressure, elongation of cladding and fuel stack, and cladding diameter changes obtained during full power reactor operation. Data from fuel behavior studies at the OECD Halden Reactor Project, provided for the IAEA co-ordinated research programme FUMEX, are used to elucidate short and long-term developments of fuel behavior. The examples comprise: fuel conductivity degradation manifested as a gradual temperature increase with burn-up; the influence of a combination of small gap/high fission gas release on fuel centre temperature (situation at high burn-up); fission gas release during normal operation and power ramps, and the possibility of a burn-up enhancement; PCMI reflected by cladding elongation, also for the case of a nominally open gap, and the change of interaction onset with burn-up. (author). 10 refs, 9 figs, 1 tab.
Authors:
Wiesenack, W [1] 
  1. Institutt for Energiteknikk, Halden (Norway). OECD Halden Reaktor Projekt
Publication Date:
Aug 01, 1997
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
IAEA-TECDOC-957; CONF-9409411-
Reference Number:
SCA: 210400; PA: AIX-28:068597; EDB-97:129997; SN: 97001863133
Resource Relation:
Conference: IAEA technical committee meeting on water reactor fuel element modelling at high burnup and its experimental support, Windermere (United Kingdom), 19-23 Sep 1994; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Water reactor fuel element modelling at high burnup and its experimental support. Proceedings of a technical committee meeting; PB: 559 p.
Subject:
21 NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; HBWR REACTOR; FUEL ELEMENTS; BURNUP; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE; SIMULATION; SIZE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL DATA; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VARIATIONS
OSTI ID:
534370
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 1011-4289; Other: ON: DE98602336; TRN: XA9744788068597
Availability:
INIS; OSTI as DE98602336
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
pp. 39-54
Announcement Date:
Oct 31, 1997

Citation Formats

Wiesenack, W. Data for FUMEX: Results from fuel behavior studies at the OECD Halden Reactor Project for model validation and development. IAEA: N. p., 1997. Web.
Wiesenack, W. Data for FUMEX: Results from fuel behavior studies at the OECD Halden Reactor Project for model validation and development. IAEA.
Wiesenack, W. 1997. "Data for FUMEX: Results from fuel behavior studies at the OECD Halden Reactor Project for model validation and development." IAEA.
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title = {Data for FUMEX: Results from fuel behavior studies at the OECD Halden Reactor Project for model validation and development}
author = {Wiesenack, W}
abstractNote = {Investigations of phenomena associated with extended or high burn-up are an important part of the fuel and materials testing programme carried out at the OECD Halden Reactor Project. The in-core studies comprise long term fuel rod behavior as well as the response to power ramps. Performance is assessed through measurements of fuel centre temperature, rod pressure, elongation of cladding and fuel stack, and cladding diameter changes obtained during full power reactor operation. Data from fuel behavior studies at the OECD Halden Reactor Project, provided for the IAEA co-ordinated research programme FUMEX, are used to elucidate short and long-term developments of fuel behavior. The examples comprise: fuel conductivity degradation manifested as a gradual temperature increase with burn-up; the influence of a combination of small gap/high fission gas release on fuel centre temperature (situation at high burn-up); fission gas release during normal operation and power ramps, and the possibility of a burn-up enhancement; PCMI reflected by cladding elongation, also for the case of a nominally open gap, and the change of interaction onset with burn-up. (author). 10 refs, 9 figs, 1 tab.}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1997}
month = {Aug}
}