Study on In-Service Inspection of Nuclear Fuel Assembly Failure Using Ultrasonic Plate Wave [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 As protection for nuclear power plants is quite necessary, the nuclear fuel is sealed in zirconium alloy thin wall cladding. During service, fuel rods might be damaged caused by wall-thickness thinning, cladding corrosion and cracking, etc.
Xiang Xiao +4 more
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Vibration Monitoring Using Fiber Optic Sensors in a Lead-Bismuth Eutectic Cooled Nuclear Fuel Assembly [PDF]
Sensors, 2016 Excessive fuel assembly vibrations in nuclear reactor cores should be avoided in order not to compromise the lifetime of the assembly and in order to prevent the occurrence of safety hazards.
Ben De Pauw +6 more
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Measurement of nuclear fuel assembly’s bow from visual inspection’s video record
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023 The bow of the nuclear fuel assembly is a well-known phenomenon. One of the vital criteria during the history of nuclear fuel development has been fuel assembly’s mechanical stability.
Dušan Plašienka +4 more
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Friction and wear of elements of nuclear reactors [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Fuel elements (fuel rods) and spacer grids are the main elements of the fuel assembly of a nuclear reactor. Friction forces affect the strength of the fuel assembly at all stages of its life cycle.
Kanareykin Alexandr
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CFD benchmark of flat plate fuel assembly [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2022 Diversification of the nuclear fuel suppliers is an inseparable component of nuclear safety of power and research nuclear reactors. So far, the Czech research reactor LVR-15 has been operated with the Russian fuel IRT-4M, because there was no alternative
Hrouda Štěpán +3 more
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Analysis of coolant flow at the outlet of the physical model of the fuel assembly II. of the nuclear reactor VVER 440 / V213 [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 To safely and efficiently load the fuel assemblies of the VVER 440 / V 213 nuclear reactor, the relation between the temperature of the coolant at the outlet of the fuel assembly, measured by a thermocouple in the assembly’s axis, and the mean coolant ...
Mlynár Peter +4 more
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Uncertainty quantification in decay heat calculation of spent nuclear fuel by STREAM/RAST-K
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021 This paper addresses the uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of a depleted light-water fuel assembly of the Turkey Point-3 benchmark. The uncertainty of the fuel assembly decay heat and isotopic densities is quantified with respect to ...
Jaerim Jang +5 more
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Conceptual design of neutron measurement system for input accountancy in pyroprocessing
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2020 One of the possible options for spent-fuel management in Korea is pyroprocessing, which is a process for electrochemical recycling of spent nuclear fuel. Nuclear material accountancy is considered to be a safeguards measure of fundamental importance, for
Chaehun Lee +3 more
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East European Journal of Physics, 2022 The influence of technological processes and manufacturing of uranium dioxide fuel pellets for fuel elements for experimental fuel assembly (FA-X) which was designed as an alternative fuel for the nuclear research installation (NRI) "Neutron Source ...
Igor Chernov +3 more
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Optimization of a Fuel Assembly for Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactor CSR1000
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 As one of the Generation IV nuclear reactors, the SCWR (supercritical water-cooled reactor) has high economy and safety margin, good mechanical properties for its high thermal efficiency, and simplified structure design.
Fawen Zhu +8 more
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