This paper provides a comprehensive review of published articles addressing passive
enhancement of pool boiling using surface modification techniques. They include …

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

Zirconium-based alloys have served the nuclear industry for several decades due to their
acceptable properties for nuclear cores of light water reactors (LWRs). However, severe …

Cr-coated Zircaloy-4 samples are prepared by vacuum arc plasma deposition and their
microstructure, corrosion resistance and oxidation behavior are investigated. The as …

Accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) cladding materials aim to improve fuel reliability and safety
during accident scenarios in water-cooled reactors. These ATF cladding should also perform …

Thermal safety function of coating layers on the fuel cladding has been considered as well
as improvement of material function for development of advanced accident-tolerant fuel …

We elucidate the separate effect of a thin Cr coating deposited by physical vapor deposition
(PVD) on the subcooled flow boiling performance of zircaloy-4. First, we run flow boiling …

Flow boiling heat transfer tests were conducted to evaluate the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and
Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) of conventional and accident tolerant fuel (ATF) cladding …

Microstructure of radiation-induced Iron phases were investigated in a 6H-SiC subjected to
Iron and Helium bombardment with a damage level of 8 dpa. The microstructural evolution …

Due to its superiority in suppressing hydrogen generation under severe accident conditions,
silicon carbide (SiC) has been regarded as one of the promising candidates among the …