加州大学伯克莱分校(UCB)核工系相关课程习题7.pdfVIP

FUEL PERFORMANCE #7 CLADDING DEFORMATION Due to the accumulation of fission products dissolved in fuel Oxide Fuel  ΔV  2   (%) 1.8 (BU)  0.3 (BU) BU  3 MWd/kgU  V  fp 0.08(BU)  2.1 BU  3 MWd/kgU Solid fp swelling radiation densification Burnup, MWd/kgU 1 Swelling of hydride fuel Slope = 0.08 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 Burnup, MWd/kgU 2 Cladding properties • Type (Zry-2, Zry-4, ZIRLO, M5) • Fabrication: cold-worked or stress-relieved-annealed • Surface roughness • Texture factor (fraction of grains of hcp Zr with basal planes parallel to the tube axis – usually small) • Fill-gas type and pressure (usually He at ~ 10 atm) • or liquid-metal bond • Plastic and thermal creep properties • Irradiation hardening and irradiation creep 3 Stresses in cladding • forces acting on the cladding arise from: - fuel swelling (closed gap, or hard PCMI)  (p  p)R /   i C C z  (Memo #5) pgas - fission-gas and system pressure RC gas pressure pgas C Open gap : •thin - wall tubes,  (pgas  p)RC / C ; 1 z 2  4 Open gap - gas pressure (He + fg)