[HTML][HTML] Materials challenges for nuclear systems

T Allen, J Busby, M Meyer, D Petti - Materials today, 2010 - Elsevier
The safe and economical operation of any nuclear power system relies to a great extent, on
the success of the fuel and the materials of construction. During the lifetime of a nuclear …

[HTML][HTML] A review of nuclear electric fission space reactor technologies for achieving high-power output and operating with HALEU fuel

A Peakman, B Lindley - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Considerable attention is currently directed towards space nuclear reactor systems with
significantly higher power outputs, catering to applications like nuclear electric propulsion …

Nuclear fuels–present and future

D Olander - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2009 - Elsevier
The important developments in nuclear fuels and their problems are reviewed and
compared with the status of present light-water reactor fuels. The limitations of LWR fuels are …

Neutronic evaluation of coating and cladding materials for accident tolerant fuels

I Younker, M Fratoni - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
In severe accident conditions with loss of active cooling in the core, zirconium alloys, used
as fuel cladding materials for current light water reactors (LWR), undergo a rapid oxidation …

Hydrogen absorption cracking of zirconium alloy in the application of nuclear industry

C Zhao, X Song, Y Yang, B Zhang - International journal of hydrogen …, 2013 - Elsevier
The hydrogen absorption cracking behavior of Zr-4 has been investigated based on the
microstructure, hydrogen absorption amount as well as residual stress. The results show that …

Other power reactor fuels

AT Nelson, P Demkowicz - Advances in Nuclear Fuel Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
While oxide fuels have received the bulk of historic interest as nuclear power reactor fuels, a
range of other uranium compounds and deployment architectures have also been …

High-temperature absolute hydrogen desorption kinetics of zirconium hydride under clean and oxidized surface conditions

D Wongsawaeng, S Jaiyen - Journal of nuclear materials, 2010 - Elsevier
High-temperature absolute hydrogen desorption kinetics of zirconium hydride specimens
with H/Zr ratio from 1.7 to 0 with no hydrogen backpressure for oxidized and clean surface …

Testing of cross section libraries on zirconium benchmarks

L Snoj, A Trkov, M Ravnik, G Žerovnik - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate the influence of various up-to-date nuclear data libraries, such
as ENDF/B-VI. 6, ENDF/B-VII. 0 and JEFF 3.1, on the multiplication factor of the TRIGA …

Advanced burner reactors with breed-and-burn thorium blankets for improved economics and resource utilization

G Zhang, M Fratoni, E Greenspan - Nuclear Technology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper assesses the feasibility of designing seed-and-blanket (S&B) sodium-cooled fast
reactor (SFR) cores to generate a significant fraction of the core power from radial thorium …

Neutronic characteristic analysis of the GAMA microreactor

AW Harto, A Agung, MYA Putra, RA Azizi, DJ Kanaya… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The GAMA Microreactor is a low-power nuclear power plant dedicated for remote area with
a power output of 300 kWe. The primary characteristics of the GAMA Microreactor are its …