This work follows the AGR-like FHR ongoing research that proposes to adopt the British
Advanced Gas cooled Reactor (AGR) geometry combined with the molten salt Fluoride …

This paper presents a safety analysis of two proposed core loadings for 24-month
Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) fuel cycles. This analysis focuses on reactivity-initiated …

Accelerating the nuclear fuel qualification process will rely on some combination of
advanced modeling and simulation techniques with accelerated irradiation testing and …

Chromium-doped UO 2 fuel has received significant interest due to the ability for chromium
to produce pellets with large average grain size (> 30 μm), which has shown to increase …

Capillary evolution at bicrystal UO2 grain boundaries is characterized using in situ
transmission electron microscopy. The discontinuous nature of the densification process …

In the present work, a new phase-field model was developed to simulate the effects of
second phase particles and pores on grain boundary (GB) removement during solid-state …

Accelerated fuel qualification (AFQ) is a methodology by which new nuclear fuels are
developed in an accelerated time frame compared with historical fuel qualification …

Abstract The Fluoride Salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor (FHR) is a subclass of Molten
Salt Reactor (MSR) that uses solid fuel separated from the molten coolant salt. Previous …

Isotopic taggants are being considered as a novel form of forensic identifiers for nuclear
fuels. As part of this effort, eighteen tagged MiniFuel disks were irradiated in the High Flux …

Intentional Forensics is the strategy of deliberately introducing benign and persistent
material signatures during nuclear fuel fabrication and processing. The purpose is to reduce …