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 …

[BOOK][B] Comprehensive nuclear materials

R Konings, RE Stoller - 2020 - books.google.com
Materials in a nuclear environment are exposed to extreme conditions of radiation,
temperature and/or corrosion, and in many cases the combination of these makes the …

Stability of oxygen point defects in by first-principles calculations: Occupation matrix control and Jahn-Teller distortion

B Dorado, G Jomard, M Freyss, M Bertolus - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2010 - APS
Point-defect formation energies in uranium dioxide UO 2 are still a matter of debate due to
the significant discrepancies between the various studies published in the literature. These …

U and Xe transport in UO: Density functional theory calculations

DA Andersson, BP Uberuaga, PV Nerikar, C Unal… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
The detrimental effects of the fission gas Xe on the performance of oxide nuclear fuels are
well known. However, less well known are the mechanisms that govern fission gas …

Atomistic modeling of intrinsic and radiation-enhanced fission gas (Xe) diffusion in UO2±x: Implications for nuclear fuel performance modeling

DA Andersson, P Garcia, XY Liu, G Pastore… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Elsevier
Based on density functional theory (DFT) and empirical potential calculations, the diffusivity
of fission gas atoms (Xe) in UO 2 nuclear fuel has been calculated for a range of non …

Mechanistic materials modeling for nuclear fuel performance

MR Tonks, D Andersson, SR Phillpot, Y Zhang… - Annals of nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fuel performance codes are critical tools for the design, certification, and safety analysis of
nuclear reactors. However, their ability to predict fuel behavior under abnormal conditions is …

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 …

Interplay of defect cluster and the stability of xenon in uranium dioxide from density functional calculations

HY Geng, Y Chen, Y Kaneta, M Kinoshita, Q Wu - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Self-defect clusters in bulk matrix might affect the thermodynamic behavior of fission gases
in nuclear fuel such as uranium dioxide. With first-principles local spin-density …

Development of Xe and Kr empirical potentials for CeO2, ThO2, UO2 and PuO2, combining DFT with high temperature MD

MWD Cooper, N Kuganathan, PA Burr… - Journal of Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of embedded atom method (EAM) many-body potentials for actinide
oxides and associated mixed oxide (MOX) systems has motivated the development of a …