With the increasing interest in small modular reactors or microreactors, developers are
working to design and submit licensing approval requests of U–10Zr-fueled fast reactors …

Metallic fuel has an important historical significance in the development of nuclear reactors
and continues to be relevant to the progression of advanced test and power reactors. A …

The fuel performance code BISON is being used to evaluate metallic fuel for a new fast-
spectrum test reactor called the Versatile Test Reactor, which is being considered for …

Gaseous fission products from nuclear fission reactions tend to form fission gas bubbles of
various shapes and sizes inside nuclear fuel. The behavior of fission gas bubbles dictates …

Despite decades of fuel rod material and design improvements, fuel-cladding chemical
interaction (FCCI) remains the single-most lifetime-limiting behavior for modern metallic fuel …

Abstract With the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act of 2018, launched in March
2019, the Congress of the United States authorized funding to design and build a Versatile …

To assist both the advanced reactor industry and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) in the pursuit of reactor design and licensing, the US Department of Energy (DOE) …

The mission of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Fuel Campaign (AFC)
program is conducting R&D on nuclear fuel technology that enables near-and long-term …

In order to leverage existing reduced order models (ROM) for the modeling of LANL-
developed HT-9 cladding constitutive behavior, mechanistic-based models have been …