[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 …

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 …

Mechanistic materials modeling for nuclear fuel performance

MR Tonks, D Andersson, SR Phillpot, Y Zhang… - Annals of nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fuel performance codes are critical tools for the design, certification, and safety analysis of
nuclear reactors. However, their ability to predict fuel behavior under abnormal conditions is …

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 …

ALCYONE: the fuel performance code of the PLEIADES platform dedicated to PWR fuel rods behavior

C Introïni, I Ramière, J Sercombe, B Michel… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
The aim of this contribution is to deeply introduce the ALCYONE Fuel Performance Code.
ALCYONE is being implemented within the PLEIADES numerical framework and is …

Full core LOCA safety analysis for a PWR containing high burnup fuel

N Capps, A Wysocki, A Godfrey, B Collins… - … Engineering and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
For economic reasons, the US nuclear industry is renewing efforts to build a technical basis
to extend peak rod average burnup limits above the current regulatory burnup limit of 62 …

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 OFFBEAT multi-dimensional fuel behavior solver

A Scolaro, I Clifford, C Fiorina, A Pautz - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The OpenFOAM Fuel BEhavior Analysis Tool, or OFFBEAT, is a multi-dimensional
fuel performance code under collaborative development at the Laboratory for Reactor …

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 …

Analysis of transient fission gas behaviour in oxide fuel using BISON and TRANSURANUS

T Barani, E Bruschi, D Pizzocri, G Pastore… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
The modelling of fission gas behaviour is a crucial aspect of nuclear fuel performance
analysis in view of the related effects on the thermo-mechanical performance of the fuel rod …