... (ATF) [ 7 ] and steam generator (SG) AFW performances analysis are presented to show how we carefully treat the details during the research. Design-basis event Current reactors Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Thermal hydraulics Materials Security 17 10 2017...

..., 2017; final manuscript received April 5, 2018; published online September 10, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 26 10 2017 05 04 2018 Current reactors Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Radiation protection Materials Security Radiation science Nuclear reactor pressure...

... received September 27, 2017; final manuscript received May 22, 2018; published online September 10, 2018. Editor: Igor Pioro. 27 09 2017 22 05 2018 Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Materials Selection of appropriate materials able to work for a long time in contact...

...Shengli Chen; Cenxi Yuan The management of long-lived radionuclides in spent fuel is a key issue to achieve the closed nuclear fuel cycle and the sustainable development of nuclear energy. The partitioning-transmutation method is supposed to efficiently treat the long-lived radionuclides...

...; final manuscript received April 7, 2018; published online September 10, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 19 10 2017 07 04 2018 Advanced reactors Nuclear fuels Reactor Physics Transport theory Materials A nuclear accident not only damages the life and property...

... that of incident particles and high neutron flux [ 4 , 5 ]. The surface of the PFMs is subjected to erosion by energetic ions and neutral atoms escaping from the plasma. The divertor plates as an important part of the PFMs are also exposed to hydrogen (H), deuterium (D), and tritium (T) [ 6 ]. Nuclear...

... with a target date of November 2017. Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Reactor Physics Materials 24 07 2017 07 12 2017 Manuscript received July 24, 2017; final manuscript received December 7, 2017; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Dmitry Paramonov.The United States...

..., 2018; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Wenyue Zheng. 31 10 2017 06 03 2018 Next generation reactors Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Materials Multipurpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications (MYRRHA) is a flexible fast-spectrum irradiation...

... received July 14, 2017; final manuscript received February 13, 2018; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 14 07 2017 13 02 2018 Fuel cycle Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Radioactive waste management Decommissioning Materials Safe and steady fuel...

..., we have solved the steady-state heat conduction equation, to analyze the temperature profiles of a 12 mm diameter cylindrical dispersed nuclear fuels of U 3 O 8 -Al, U 3 Si 2 -Al, and UN-Al operating at 597 ° C. Moreover, we have also derived the thermal conductivity correlations as a function...

... of the mechanism of the fission gas atoms migration in UO 2 fuel from an atomic level. Nuclear fuels Materials 31 10 2017 20 03 2018 Manuscript received October 31, 2017; final manuscript received March 20, 2018; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 1...

...Wang Zhu; Zhang Chungyu; Yuan Cenxi Nuclear fuel rods operate under complex radioactive, thermal, and mechanical conditions. Nowadays, fuel rod codes usually make great simplifications on analyzing the multiphysics behavior of fuel rods. The present study develops a three-dimensional (3D) module...

.... Manuscript received December 9, 2016; final manuscript received June 10, 2017; published online March 5, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Michal Kostal. 09 12 2016 10 06 2017 Design-basis event Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Materials Security The Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents...

...; published online December 4, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Thomas Schulenberg. 09 04 2017 22 09 2017 Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Materials Security The fuel performance analysis codes play a very important role in the design, safety analysis, in pile...

.... 27 04 2017 10 08 2017 Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Materials Concerns with greenhouse gas emissions and the uncertainty of long-term supply of fossil fuels have resulted in renewed interest in nuclear energy as an essential part of the energy mix for the future...

... on the surface after 300 and 600 h of exposure. However, as exposure progressed, more Ni and Mn-containing spinel started to form, signaling Cr and Al depletion on the metal substrate surface. Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Materials Concerns with greenhouse gas emissions and uncertainty...

... 06 2017 Nuclear fuels Materials Uranium dioxide (UO 2 ) is the most widely used nuclear fuel for commercial light water thermal reactor due to its excellent performances such as high melting point, good dimensional and radiation stability, and outstanding chemical compatibility...

... , M. R. , 2010 , “ Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modelling of Iodine Induced Stress Corrosion Cracking in Nuclear Fuel Sheathing ,” M.A.Sc. thesis, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada. [22] Quastel , A. D. , Corcoran , E. C. , and Lewis , B. J. , 2013 , “ The Effect...

..., thermal conductivity varying with fast neutron fluence, and daily thermal heat rates imported from physics analysis using the Monte Carlo N-particle code. These two experiments were shake-down tests for the tristructural-isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles in compacts. Advanced reactors Nuclear...

... levels [ 4 , 5 ]. Hence, better passivation surface compounds can be useful for these cases. Nuclear fuels Materials 12 06 2016 28 03 2017 Manuscript received June 12, 2016; final manuscript received March 28, 2017; published online May 25, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Ilan Yaar...