Modeling of Pore Coarsening in the Rim Region of High Burn-up UO2 Fuel
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2016 An understanding of the coarsening process of the large fission gas pores in the high burn-up structure (HBS) of irradiated UO2 fuel is very necessary for analyzing the safety and reliability of fuel rods in a reactor.
Hongxing Xiao, Chongsheng Long
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Famos III, burn-up measurement system suitable for la Hague acceptance criteria control [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2002 Fuel Assembly Monitoring System (FAMOS) was developed to set up a NDA method for the characterization of light water reactor fuel assemblies. The applied active/passive monitoring system made total characterization of fuel assemblies possible, without ...
Simon Gerold G. +1 more
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Environmental Impact Assessment, on the Operation of Conventional and More Electric Large Commercial Aircraft [PDF]
, 2013 Global aviation is growing exponentially and there is a great emphasis on trajectory optimization to reduce the overall environmental impact caused by aircraft. Many optimization techniques exist and are being studied for this purpose.
Lawson, Craig P. +2 more
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EPJ Web of Conferences, 2016 Paper describes the new approach of fitting axial fuel burn-up patterns in peripheral fuel assemblies of VVER-1000 type reactors, on the base of ex-core neutron leakage measurements, neutron-physical calculations and in-core SPND measured data.
Borodkin Pavel +2 more
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A study into the propagation of the uncertainties in nuclear data to the nuclear concentrations of nuclides in burn-up calculations [PDF]
Nuclear Energy and Technology, 2020 The key papers on estimating the uncertainties in nuclear data deal with the influence of these uncertainties on the effective multiplication factor by introducing the so-called sensitivity factors and only some of these are concerned with the influence ...
Alexander N. Pisarev, Valerii V. Kolesov
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Horizontal flight trajectory optimization considering RTA constraints [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 The increasing of flights around the world has led to various problems for the aeronautical industry such as saturated air space and higher levels of fossil fuel consumption.
Murrieta-Mendoza Alejandro +2 more
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Dissolution experiments of commercial PWR (52 MWd/kgU) and BWR (53 MWd/kgU) spent nuclear fuel cladded segments in bicarbonate water under oxidizing conditions. Experimental determination of matrix and instant release fraction [PDF]
, 2015 The denominated instant release fraction (IRF) is considered in performance assessment (PA) exercises to govern the dose that could arise from the repository.
Casas Pons, Ignasi +4 more
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Annealing influence on the microstructure of irradiated U-Mo monolithic fuel foils
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023 In this study we compared the microstructure evolution of U-Mo fuel foils produced with and without heat treatment at low burn-up via advanced post-irradiation examination.
F.G. Di Lemma +7 more
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HIGH BURN-UP TESTS OF U-Al FUEL ELEMENTS [PDF]
, 1964 A series of irradiation tests were performed on the High Flux Beam Reactor fuel elements. The U--Al fuel elements contained 30 to 40 wt% U and 3% Si. Burnup ranged from 20 to 50%. A summary of the results is given. (C.E.S.)
Weeks, J. R. +2 more
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Study of Neptunium, Americium and Protactinium Addition for 300MWth GFR with Uranium Carbide Fuel
Computational and Experimental Research in Materials and Renewable Energy, 2019 A study of Neptunium, Americium, and Protactinium addition for GFR 300MWth with Uranium Carbide fuel has been performed. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of addition Neptunium, Americium, and Protactinium in a 300MWth Gas ...
Ratna Dewi Syarifah, Alvi Nur Sabrina
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