Fission gas release from UO2 nuclear fuel: A review

J Rest, MWD Cooper, J Spino, JA Turnbull… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Gaseous fission product generation, transport, and release can have a large impact on
nuclear fuel performance, degrading fuel and fuel–cladding gap properties. Over the past …

Unit mechanisms of fission gas release: Current understanding and future needs

M Tonks, D Andersson, R Devanathan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Gaseous fission product transport and release has a large impact on fuel performance,
degrading fuel and gap properties. While gaseous fission product behavior has been …

Fission gas diffusion and release for Cr2O3-doped UO2: From the atomic to the engineering scale

MWD Cooper, G Pastore, Y Che, C Matthews… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
The anticipated benefits of large grains in Cr 2 O 3-doped UO 2 pellets include improved
mechanical and fission gas retention properties. To support the assessment of fission gas …

Cluster dynamics simulation of xenon diffusion during irradiation in UO2

C Matthews, R Perriot, MWD Cooper, CR Stanek… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
Diffusion of fission gas in UO 2 nuclear fuel impacts several important performance metrics,
such as fission gas release, swelling, and thermal conductivity. Current empirical models of …

Accelerating nuclear fuel development and qualification: Modeling and simulation integrated with separate-effects testing

KA Terrani, NA Capps, MJ Kerr, CA Back… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
An approach to transform and accelerate nuclear fuel development and qualification is
outlined. The approach exploits advanced modeling and simulation at the outset to inform …

Parametrization of for noncollinear magnetic configurations: Multipolar magnetism in

SL Dudarev, P Liu, DA Andersson, CR Stanek… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
To explore the formation of noncollinear magnetic configurations in materials with strongly
correlated electrons, we derive a noncollinear LSDA+ U model involving only one parameter …

Density functional theory calculations of self-and Xe diffusion in U3Si2

DA Andersson, XY Liu, B Beeler… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Uranium silicide, U 3 Si 2, has been proposed as an advanced nuclear fuel to be
used in light water reactors (LWRs). Development of this alternative to the predominant …

The defect chemistry of UO2±x from atomistic simulations

MWD Cooper, ST Murphy, DA Andersson - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Control of the defect chemistry in UO 2±x is important for manipulating nuclear fuel
properties and fuel performance. For example, the uranium vacancy concentration is critical …

The role of irradiation-enhanced interstitial diffusion in over-pressurizing fission gas bubbles in UO2

MWD Cooper, C Matthews, DA Andersson - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2025 - Elsevier
Fission gas bubbles in UO 2 nuclear fuel have been observed to exhibit pressures in excess
of the equilibrium bubble pressure; however, the cause of bubble over-pressurization has …

Atomistic modeling of out-of-pile xenon diffusion by vacancy clusters in UO2

R Perriot, C Matthews, MWD Cooper… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Diffusion of Xe atoms in UO 2 fuel is important for nuclear fuel performance, and is enabled
by interaction with U and O vacancies. Previous work using atomistic calculations based on …