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Title: Fully-Coupled Metallic Fuel Performance Simulations using BISON

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OSTI ID:1213497
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

This document is a set of slides intended to accompany a talk at a meeting. The first topic taken up is zirconium redistribution. The rod edge Zr increase is evidently due to the Soret term and temperature gradient. Then metallic fission gas release modeling is considered. Based on a GRSIS/FEAST model, the approach of generating fission gas in the fuel matrix is described. A sensitivity study on parameters is presented, including sodium bond & diffusion coefficient sensitivity along with dt sensitivity. Finally, results of some coupled simulations are shown, with ideas about future work.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/LANL
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1213497
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-26773
Resource Relation:
Conference: FCRD Integration Meeting ; 2015-08-25 - 2015-08-27 ; Islip, New York, United States
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English