Fission gas release during post irradiation annealing of BWR fuels.

1 January 1990

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Vol. 27 (11) , 1002-1016
https://doi.org/10.3327/jnst.27.1002

Abstract

Uranium dioxide fuels irradiated in a commercial BWR during 1 to 4 cycles (burn-up: 6–28 GWd/t) have been annealed in an out-of-pile condition and the release rate of 85Kr was measured continuously...

Keywords

KRYPTON 85
FISSION PRODUCTS
RELEASE
URANIUM DIOXIDE
BWR TYPE REACTORS
NUCLEAR FUELS
BURNUP
DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT
SWELLING
GAS BUBBLES
GRAIN BOUNDARIES
POST-IRRADIATION ANNEALING
VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
MICROSTRUCTURES