The macroscale irradiation swelling deformations of nuclear fuels induced by the solid and
gas fission products are one of the most concerned problems in nuclear reactor core design …

Fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuels with enhanced accident tolerance can provide
an increased retention of fission products. In this study, a new method to model their …

TRISO particle buffer layer is a critical functional part in FCM fuels. A skeleton stress model
for buffer layer is proposed, dependent on the current porosity, the maximum macroscale …

Abstract Solid Microencapsulated Fuel (SMF) is a kind of new accident-tolerant fuel (ATF),
where the TRISO coated fuel particles are dispersed directly into a type of matrix in the form …

Fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM TM) fuels, proposed as an accident tolerant fuel in
light water reactors (LWRs), consists of tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles and …

The multi-scale related models for the effective elastic constants of porous U-10Mo fuels
under the irradiation conditions are developed with the proposed multi-level …

U-xZr alloys have a promising application prospect in advanced nuclear fuel elements, and
their macroscale volume growth under the extreme service environments are attracting more …

Porous carbon layers within TRISO (TRistructural-ISOtropic) particles play an important role
in accommodating gaseous fission products and irradiation swelling of fuel kernels. In this …

Designed to contain fission products during irradiation and off-normal accident scenarios,
tristructural isotropic (TRISO) particles are a robust fuel form consisting of a uranium …

Fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel is a five-layer intercalation system material
consisting of a UO2 core, a sparse pyrolytic carbon layer (Buffer), an inner dense pyrolytic …