Accident-Tolerant Fuel

Nicholas R. Brown, Andrew T. Nelson, Kurt A. Terrani

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

9 Scopus citations

Abstract

Advanced light water reactor (LWR) fuels have been developed incrementally for more than 60 years before the term Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) was created. There are many different categories of ATF concepts, which range from near-term marginal enhancements to fission gas release in fuel or hydrogen pickup in the cladding, to transformational fuel types with new engineered fission product barriers. In this work we characterize these different types of ATF, and give several important examples for each.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComprehensive Nuclear Materials
Subtitle of host publicationSecond Edition
PublisherElsevier
Pages684-706
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)9780081028650
ISBN (Print)9780081028667
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 22 2020

Keywords

  • Accident tolerant fuel
  • Advanced nuclear fuels
  • Coated claddings
  • Light water reactors
  • Nuclear fuel safety
  • Nuclear reactor safety
  • Reactor performance and safety characteristics

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Accident-Tolerant Fuel'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this