Burnable absorbers can benefit nuclear reactors of virtually any design by providing
reactivity control for extended fuel cycles, tritium production, burning of long-lived …

The challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures designed and
intended to mitigate oxidation of the fuel during a cladding breach of a water-cooled reactor …

Dense uranium mononitride (UN) pellets with controlled microstructures and tailored grain
size from large-grained to a few microns are synthesized by spark plasma sintering (SPS) …

Thorium (Th)-based fuels are considered as promising candidates for generation-IV
reactors. To explore potential thorium boride (Th x B y) structures and to obtain physical …

The mechanical interaction between the fuel and cladding that occurs during operation of a
nuclear reactor is important to understand as it can lead to cladding failures and release of …

The present study addresses the lack of steam oxidation kinetic data for high purity uranium
mononitride (UN), assesses the sensitivity of the dynamic response of UN to the density of …

Uranium dioxide (UO 2) composites with uranium diboride (UB 2) and uranium tetraboride
(UB 4) have been proposed as advanced fuel candidates due to their high thermal …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted considerable research interest due
to their precisely defined properties and versatile applications. In this realm, borophene-a …

U 3 Si 2 is an advanced fuel candidate due to its relatively high fissile density and attractive
thermal properties. Compared to standard UO 2 fuel, there are significant data gaps for the …

A combination of density functional theory and empirical potential atomic scale simulations
have been used to determine a model for defect stability and mobility in uranium …