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 …

Nuclear energy has been a part of the energy mix in many countries for decades. Today in
principle all power producing reactors use the same techniqe. Either PWR or BWR fuelled …

Dense uranium mononitride (UN) pellets with controlled microstructures and tailored grain
size from large-grained to a few microns are synthesized by spark plasma sintering (SPS) …

Dense U 3 Si 2 pellets with controlled grain structure and enhanced thermal-mechanical
and oxidation properties are synthesized with spark plasma sintering (SPS). Microstructure …

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 …

The present study addresses the lack of steam oxidation kinetic data for high purity uranium
mononitride (UN), assesses the sensitivity of the dynamic response of UN to the density of …

Uranium mononitride (UN) is an advanced nuclear fuel currently being considered for use in
several generation IV fast and thermal neutron spectrum core designs, with additional …

Extensive attention has been paid to accident tolerant fuels (ATFs), such as uranium
mononitride (UN) and uranium sesquisilicide (U3Si2), which are regarded as potential …