Abstract
Nuclear fuel rod is composed of cladding tube and a specified number of fuel pellets contained. In the United States, spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is expected to be transported to at least one storage facility before permanent disposal. The fatigue behavior of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) rods under reversed cyclic bending must be understood in order to evaluate their vibration integrity in a transportation environment. This is especially important for high-burnup SNFs (>45 GWd/MTU). This report presents the experimental results related to Zircaloy (Zry)-4-based surrogate rods and high-burnup SNFs, based on recent work performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The surrogate rod was made of Zry-4 cladding and alumina pellets, and high-burnup fuel rods were discharged from H.B. Robinson pressurized water reactor. The reversed cyclic.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Materials and Fabrication |
| Publisher | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780791858004 |
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| State | Published - 2017 |
| Event | ASME 2017 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP 2017 - Waikoloa, United States Duration: Jul 16 2017 → Jul 20 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP |
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| Volume | 6B-2017 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0277-027X |
Conference
| Conference | ASME 2017 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP 2017 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Waikoloa |
| Period | 07/16/17 → 07/20/17 |
Funding
1 Notice: 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 nonexclusive, 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).