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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Comprehensive Nuclear Materials |
Subtitle of host publication | Second Edition |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 684-706 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780081028650 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780081028667 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 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