A concise review of Harwell modelling of fission gas behaviour

A review is presented of recent theoretical studies, performed at AERE Harwell, of fission gas behaviour in nuclear fuels. This includes a brief description of the rather sophisticated model approach and a discussion of the application of these models to predicting fission gas release and swelling in both normal operational and transient regimes. These studies have resulted in the derivation of more computationally efficient models which are also described. (author)