Accident tolerant fecral fuel cladding: current status towards commercialization

Kevin G. Field; Yukinori Yamamoto; Bruce A. Pint; Maxim N. Gussev; Kurt A. Terrani

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04639-2_91

Accident tolerant fecral fuel cladding: current status towards commercialization

Kevin G. Field, Yukinori Yamamoto, Bruce A. Pint, Maxim N. Gussev, Kurt A. Terrani

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Abstract

FeCrAl alloys are rapidly becoming mature candidate alloys for accident tolerant fuel applications. The FeCrAl material class has shown excellent oxidation resistance in high-temperature steam environments, a key aspect of any accident tolerant cladding concept, while also being corrosion resistant, stress corrosion cracking (SCC) resistant, irradiation-induced swelling resistant, weldable, and formable. Current research efforts are focused on design, development and commercial scaling of advanced FeCrAl alloys including large-scale, thin-walled seamless tube production followed by a broad spectrum of degradation evaluations in both normal and off-normal conditions. Included in this discussion is the theoretical analysis of the alloying principles and rules, alloy composition design, and overview of the most recent empirical database on possible degradation phenomena for FeCrAl alloys. The results are derived from extensive in-pile and out-of-pile experiments and form the basis for near-term deployment of a lead-test rod and/or assembly within a commercially operating nuclear power plant.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	1381-1389
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783030046385, 9783030046392, 9783319515403, 9783319651354, 9783319728520, 9783319950211
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04639-2_91
State	Published - 2019
Event	18th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors 2019 - Boston, United States Duration: Aug 18 2019 → Aug 22 2019

Publication series

Name	Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
ISSN (Print)	2367-1181
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-1696

Conference

Conference	18th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	08/18/19 → 08/22/19

Funding

This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, Advanced Fuel Campaign of the Fuel Cycle R&D program and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, for the Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies (NEET) program for the Reactor Materials effort. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ).

Keywords

Accident tolerance
Commercialization
FeCrAl

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Accident tolerant fecral fuel cladding: current status towards commercialization. / Field, Kevin G.; Yamamoto, Yukinori; Pint, Bruce A. et al.
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