Architecture and properties of TCR fuel form

K. A. Terrani; B. C. Jolly; M. P. Trammell; G. Vasadevamurthy; D. Schappel; B. Ade; G. W. Helmreich; H. Wang; A. Marquiz Rossy; B. R. Betzler; A. T. Nelson

doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2021.152781

Architecture and properties of TCR fuel form

K. A. Terrani, B. C. Jolly, M. P. Trammell, G. Vasadevamurthy, D. Schappel, B. Ade, G. W. Helmreich, H. Wang, A. Marquiz Rossy, B. R. Betzler, A. T. Nelson

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Abstract

The fuel form developed for the Transformational Challenge Reactor demonstration program leverages recent advances in manufacturing, materials, and computational sciences, delivering a new architecture for production of high-performance microencapsulated nuclear fuels. The fuel consists of conventionally manufactured uranium nitride tristructural isotropic fuel particles embedded inside a 3D-printed silicon carbide matrix. This paper describes the overall architecture and manufacturing process for this fuel form, its properties and behavior, and the ongoing development activities.

Original language	English
Article number	152781
Journal	Journal of Nuclear Materials
Volume	547
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2021.152781
State	Published - Apr 15 2021

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes. DOE 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). This work was supported by the Transformational Challenge Reactor program of US DOE, Office of Nuclear Energy. The aid and technical insights of Austin Schumacher, Dylan Richardson, Stephanie Curlin, Tom Geer, and Quin Campbell at ORNL are gratefully acknowledged. John Hunn and Jason Harp at ORNL performed a thorough review of the manuscript.

Keywords

Additive manufacturing
Fuel
SiC
TRISO

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