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Fission Gas Behaviour in Water Reactor Fuels: Seminar Proceedings, Cadarache, France, 26-29 September 2000

By OECD

Book information

Publisher
OECD
Year
2002
ISBN
9789264196353, 9789264197152
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22904050 bytes)
Pages
544\544
Topic
Technique Energy
Time added
2012-12-16 20:25:47

Description

During irradiation, nuclear fuel changes volume, primarily through swelling. This swelling is caused by the fission products and in particular by the volatile ones such as krypton and xenon, called fission gas. Fission gas behaviour needs to be reliably predicted in order to make better use of nuclear fuel, a factor which can help to achieve the economic competitiveness required by today's markets. These proceedings communicate the results of an international seminar which reviewed recent progress in the field of fission gas behaviour in light water reactor fuel and sought to improve the models used in computer codes predicting fission gas release. State-of-the-art knowledge is presented for both uranium-oxide and mixed-oxide fuels loaded in water reactors.

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