Fission gas release from UO2 nuclear fuel: A review

J Rest, MWD Cooper, J Spino, JA Turnbull… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Gaseous fission product generation, transport, and release can have a large impact on
nuclear fuel performance, degrading fuel and fuel–cladding gap properties. Over the past …

Unit mechanisms of fission gas release: Current understanding and future needs

M Tonks, D Andersson, R Devanathan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Gaseous fission product transport and release has a large impact on fuel performance,
degrading fuel and gap properties. While gaseous fission product behavior has been …

BISON: A flexible code for advanced simulation of the performance of multiple nuclear fuel forms

RL Williamson, JD Hales, SR Novascone… - Nuclear …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
BISON is a nuclear fuel performance application built using the Multiphysics Object-Oriented
Simulation Environment (MOOSE) finite element library. One of its major goals is to have a …

An investigation of FeCrAl cladding behavior under normal operating and loss of coolant conditions

KA Gamble, T Barani, D Pizzocri, JD Hales… - Journal of nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Iron-chromium-aluminum (FeCrAl) alloys are candidates to be used as nuclear fuel
cladding for increased accident tolerance. An analysis of the response of FeCrAl under …

[HTML][HTML] A review of fuel performance modelling

P Van Uffelen, J Hales, W Li, G Rossiter… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Dr. Paul Van Uffelen graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and the Ecole
Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Grenoble (France) with a master degree in …

[HTML][HTML] SCIANTIX: a new open source multi-scale code for fission gas behaviour modelling designed for nuclear fuel performance codes

D Pizzocri, T Barani, L Luzzi - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Bridging lower length-scale calculations with the engineering-scale simulations of fuel
performance codes requires the development of dedicated intermediate-scale codes. In this …

[HTML][HTML] The SCIANTIX code for fission gas behaviour: Status, upgrades, separate-effect validation, and future developments

G Zullo, D Pizzocri, L Luzzi - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
SCIANTIX is a 0D, open-source code designed to model inert gas behaviour within nuclear
fuel at the scale of the grain. The code predominantly employs mechanistic approaches …

Empirical and mechanistic transient fission gas release model for high-burnup LOCA conditions

N Capps, L Aagesen, D Andersson, O Baldwin… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
In response to the nuclear industry desire to extend burnup beyond current licensing
practices, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) released a research information …

Kriging-based inverse uncertainty quantification of nuclear fuel performance code BISON fission gas release model using time series measurement data

X Wu, T Kozlowski, H Meidani - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
In nuclear reactor fuel performance simulation, fission gas release (FGR) and swelling
involve treatment of several complicated and interrelated physical processes, which …

The TRANSURANUS fuel performance code

A Magni, A Del Nevo, L Luzzi, D Rozzia… - Nuclear Power Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
TRANSURANUS is a computer program for the thermal and mechanical analysis of fuel rods
irradiated in nuclear reactors. It was originally developed at the Institute for Transuranium …