Published 2012 | Version v1
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Development of the FAST code for modelling CANDU fuel

Creators

  • 1. Royal Military College of Canada, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Dept., Kingston, Ontario (Canada)

Description

The Fuel And Sheath modelling Tool (FAST) is a general purpose fuel performance code for normal operating conditions developed at RMC. FAST includes models for heat generation and transport, thermal-expansion, elastic strain, densification, fission product swelling, contact, grain growth, fission gas release, gas and coolant pressure and sheath creep. These models have been coupled together using the Comsol platform and are solved on a quarter cross-section of a fuel pellet and sheath in two dimensions (radial-axial). FAST has undergone a preliminary validation against experimental post-irradiation data from six fuel elements and comparison to the ELESTRES-IST and ELESIM fuel performance codes. The results show excellent agreement with experimental measurements and other codes. (author)

Part of:
Building on our past... building for the future. 33rd Annual Canadian Nuclear Society conference and 36th CNS/CNA student conference

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Canadian Nuclear Society
Imprint Place
Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
ISBN
978-1-926773-094
Imprint Title
Building on our past... building for the future. 33rd Annual Canadian Nuclear Society conference and 36th CNS/CNA student conference
Imprint Pagination
189 Megabytes
Journal Page Range
[12 p.]

Conference

Title
33. Annual Canadian Nuclear Society conference; 36. CNS/CNA student conference
Dates
10-13 Jun 2012
Place
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada)

INIS

Country of Publication
Canada
Country of Input or Organization
Canada
INIS RN
47018073
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; FUEL CANS; FUEL ELEMENTS; FUEL PELLETS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUCLEAR FUELS
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY SOURCES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FUELS; MATERIALS; PELLETS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; SIMULATION

Optional Information

Notes
17 refs., 1 tab.; 2 figs.