The motivation for transitioning away from zirconium-based fuel cladding in light water
reactors to significantly more oxidation-resistant materials, thereby enhancing safety …

Burnable absorbers can benefit nuclear reactors of virtually any design by providing
reactivity control for extended fuel cycles, tritium production, burning of long-lived …

The challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures designed and
intended to mitigate oxidation of the fuel during a cladding breech of a water-cooled reactor …

UO 2 has a long history being used as a nuclear fuel. However, its low thermal conductivity
has become one of the major concerns limiting nuclear reactor performance and safety …

Accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) has attracted considerable research attention since the 2011
Fukushima nuclear disaster. To improve the accident tolerance of the fuel-cladding systems …

Recent interest in U 3 Si 2 as an advanced light water reactor fuel has driven assessment of
numerous properties, but characterization of its response to H 2 O environments is sparse in …

This work conducts a review on reported mechanisms of uranium corrosion in water for
studies carried out over the past 65 years. Close examination of the processes occurring in …

The oxidation behaviour of the composite UN-AlN, UN-Cr 2 N/CrN and UN-AlN-Cr 2 N/CrN
pellets in air and anoxic steam under thermal transient conditions was investigated and …

Uranium nitride (UN)-uranium dioxide (UO 2) composite fuels are being considered as an
accident tolerant fuel (ATF) option for light water reactors. However, the complexity related to …

Composite fuels such as UN-UO 2 are being considered to address the lower oxidation
resistance of the UN fuel from a safety perspective for use in light water reactors, whilst …