Modeling oxygen transport in Cr doped UO2 fuel with the TAF-ID during power transients
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Abstract
This paper proposes an efficient coupling between an oxygen redistribution model and the Thermodynamics for Advanced Fuels-International Database (TAF-ID) to describe the behavior of fission products, actinides, and dopant in a uranium dioxide matrix. The formulation of oxygen migration in the fuel is a function of the oxygen (and uranium) chemical potential gradient. The proposed formulation does not require the introduction of the Soret term and relies solely on the known mobilities of uranium and oxygen in the fuel. This coupling is applied to the simulation of a power ramp on a chromia-doped fuel rod using the PLEIADES/ALCYONE fuel performance code. The simulations successfully reproduce most of the available experimental observations on the fission products (Cs, Mo, Ru) and on the chromium dopant.
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OpenAlex topics: Nuclear Materials and Properties · Nuclear reactor physics and engineering · Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics
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