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Minor actinide
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Atomic level insight into irradiation effects in nuclear fuel materials
Microstructural evolution during in-pile irradiation, radiation damage effects and fission products behavior in UO2 nuclear fuel are key issues in understanding and for the modeling of the performance as well as safety characteristics of nuclear fuels in t ...
EPFL2024Systematic investigations of uranium carbide composites oxidation from micro- to nano-scale: Application to waste disposal
The production of radioisotope beams at the ISOLDE (Isotope Separator OnLine DEvice) facility at CERN is achieved by irradiating target materials (e.g. uranium carbides and metal foils) with protons. The materials are usually operated at temperatures above ...
EPFL2021Role of mean stress on fatigue behavior of a 316L austenitic stainless steel in LWR and air environments
Philippe Spätig, Hans-Peter Seifert
Mean stress effects on fatigue life of a stainless steel in air and boiling water reactor (BWR) environments were evaluated by load-controlled tests. In stress-life, non-zero mean stresses increase life in low cycle fatigue regime in both environments and ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021Structural performance and mechanical properties investigation of spent nuclear fuel rods under static and dynamic bending loads
Currently, most Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) is kept safely in storage either at on-site facilities or at centralized interim storage sites. Moreover, many countries face delays in implementing their waste management programmes for SNF and high-level waste dis ...
EPFL2021Applying SHARK-X to perform data assimilation with the LWR-PROTEUS Phase II integral experiments
Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman
Data assimilation methods have recently been implemented in the sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification tool SHARK-X. This paper presents how they were used with sensitivity coefficients and randomly-sampled nuclear data to simulate integral pa ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020Response of irradiated nuclear fuel rods to quasi-static and dynamic loads
Andreas Pautz, Stefano Caruso, Efstathios Vlassopoulos
This paper presents the methodology applied for the experimental and numerical investigation of the mechanical response of spent nuclear fuel rods under static and dynamic loads. The experimental activities were conducted at the JRC Karlsruhe where a 3-poi ...
CARL HANSER VERLAG2018Analysis of reactivity worths of burnt PWR fuel samples measured in LWR-PROTEUS Phase II using a CASMO-5 reflected-assembly model
Mathieu Hursin, Hakim Ferroukhi, Daniel Jerôme Siefman
The reactivity loss of PWR fuel with burnup has been investigated experimentally by measuring the reactivity worths of highly-burnt fuel samples in a PWR test lattice in the framework of the LWR-PROTEUS Phase II program. Seven UO2 samples cut from fuel rod ...
20173D ceramic printing of nuclear fuel - PSI-TM-46-16-04
Manuel Alexandre Pouchon, Marco Streit
In this document a novel nuclear fuel production method is suggested. It combines previously developed approaches and improvements of the internal gelation process, which was used over decades to produce sphere-pac fuel for minor actinide transmutation. An ...
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)201614 - Gelation and other innovative conversion processes for aqueous-based reprocessing and recycling of spent nuclear fuels
This chapter summarizes different innovative fuel production techniques using the product streams from an aqueous reprocessing route with a focus on the well-known sol-gel conversion method. There is also reference to additional steps, post sol-gel convers ...
Woodhead Publishing2015Uncertainty Quantification and Representativity Analysis of the LWR-PROTEUS Phase II Experimental Campaign
The LWR-PROTEUS Phase II experimental program was conducted at the Proteus research reactor at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in the early 2000s. One of its purposes was to gain more insight into the reactivity changes caused by fuel burnup and to devel ...
2015