Published 2005
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Behaviour of defective CANDU fuel: fuel oxidation kinetic and thermodynamic modelling
Creators
- 1. Royal Military College of Canada, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Kingston, Ontario (Canada)
Description
The thermal performance of operating CANDU fuel under defect conditions is affected by the ingress of heavy water into the fuel element. A mechanistic model has been developed to predict the extent of fuel oxidation in defective fuel and its affect on fuel thermal performance. A thermodynamic treatment of such oxidized fuel has been performed as a basis for the boundary conditions in the kinetic model. Both the kinetic and thermodynamic models have been benchmarked against recent experimental work. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Canadian Nuclear Society
- Imprint Place
- Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
- ISBN
- 0-919784-82-8
- Imprint Title
- 26th Annual CNS conference; 29th CNS/CNA student conference
- Imprint Pagination
- 168 Megabytes
- Journal Page Range
- [11 p.]
Conference
- Title
- 26. Annual CNS conference; 29. CNS/CNA student conference. Proceedings
- Dates
- 12-15 Jun 2005
- Place
- Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 38041961
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CANDU TYPE REACTORS; DEFECTS; FUEL ELEMENT FAILURE; FUEL ELEMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; OXIDATION
- Descriptors DEC
- CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY SOURCES; FAILURES; FUELS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; MATERIALS; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 14 refs., 8 figs.