Evaluation of design parameters for TRISO-coated fuel particles to establish manufacturing critical limits using PARFUME
The success of modular high temperature gas-cooled reactors is highly dependent on the performance of the tristructural-isotopic (TRISO) coated fuel particle and the quality to which it can be manufactured. During irradiation, TRISO-coated fuel particles act as a pressure vessel to contain fission gas and mitigate the diffusion of fission products to the coolant boundary. The fuel specifications place limits on key attributes to minimize fuel particle failure under irradiation and postulated accident conditions. PARFUME (an integrated mechanistic coated particle fuel performance code developed at the Idaho National Laboratory) was used to calculate fuel particle failure probabilities. By systematically varying key TRISO-coated particle attributes, failure probability functions were developed to understand how each attribute contributes to fuel particle failure. Critical manufacturing limits were calculated for the key attributes of a low enriched TRISO-coated nuclear fuel particle with a kernel diameter of 425 μm. As a result, these critical manufacturing limits identify ranges beyond where an increase in fuel particle failure probability is expected to occur.
- Publication Date:
- Report Number(s):
- INL/JOU-15-34392
Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115; PII: S0022311515303354
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Nuclear Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 469; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Research Org:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; inner pyrolytic carbon (IPyC); TRISO; silicon carbide (SiC); outer pyrolytic carbon (OPyC); PARFUME; Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR); Advanced Test Reactor (ATR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1251426
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1396698
Skerjanc, William F., Maki, John T., Collin, Blaise P., and Petti, David A.. Evaluation of design parameters for TRISO-coated fuel particles to establish manufacturing critical limits using PARFUME. United States: N. p.,
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.11.027.
Skerjanc, William F., Maki, John T., Collin, Blaise P., & Petti, David A.. Evaluation of design parameters for TRISO-coated fuel particles to establish manufacturing critical limits using PARFUME. United States. doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.11.027.
Skerjanc, William F., Maki, John T., Collin, Blaise P., and Petti, David A.. 2015.
"Evaluation of design parameters for TRISO-coated fuel particles to establish manufacturing critical limits using PARFUME". United States.
doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.11.027. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1251426.
@article{osti_1251426,
title = {Evaluation of design parameters for TRISO-coated fuel particles to establish manufacturing critical limits using PARFUME},
author = {Skerjanc, William F. and Maki, John T. and Collin, Blaise P. and Petti, David A.},
abstractNote = {The success of modular high temperature gas-cooled reactors is highly dependent on the performance of the tristructural-isotopic (TRISO) coated fuel particle and the quality to which it can be manufactured. During irradiation, TRISO-coated fuel particles act as a pressure vessel to contain fission gas and mitigate the diffusion of fission products to the coolant boundary. The fuel specifications place limits on key attributes to minimize fuel particle failure under irradiation and postulated accident conditions. PARFUME (an integrated mechanistic coated particle fuel performance code developed at the Idaho National Laboratory) was used to calculate fuel particle failure probabilities. By systematically varying key TRISO-coated particle attributes, failure probability functions were developed to understand how each attribute contributes to fuel particle failure. Critical manufacturing limits were calculated for the key attributes of a low enriched TRISO-coated nuclear fuel particle with a kernel diameter of 425 μm. As a result, these critical manufacturing limits identify ranges beyond where an increase in fuel particle failure probability is expected to occur.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.11.027},
journal = {Journal of Nuclear Materials},
number = C,
volume = 469,
place = {United States},
year = {2015},
month = {12}
}
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