Challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures to mitigate high uranium density fuel oxidation: Uranium mononitride

JK Watkins, A Gonzales, AR Wagner, ES Sooby… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Prospects for additive manufacturing of nuclear fuel forms

AT Nelson - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) is viewed as a critical enabling technology for achieving
superior performance and improved economics across many sectors. Although the past …

Energetics of oxidation and formation of uranium mononitride

VG Goncharov, J Liu, A van Veelen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Fast and accurate reduced-order modeling of a MOOSE-based additive manufacturing model with operator learning

M Yaseen, D Yushu, P German, X Wu - The International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
One predominant challenge in additive manufacturing (AM) is to achieve specific material
properties by manipulating manufacturing process parameters during the runtime. Such …

[HTML][HTML] Interface interactions in UN-X-UO2 systems (X= V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W) by pressure-assisted diffusion experiments at 1773 K

DR Costa, H Liu, DA Lopes, SC Middleburgh… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
UN-UO 2 composite fuel is considered an advanced technology fuel (ATF) option to
overcome the low oxidation resistance of the UN fuel. However, the interaction between UO …

Thermal conductivity evaluation of ion irradiated Si3N4 and ZrN ceramics using spatial domain thermoreflectance

AJ Terricabras, J Ferrigno, L Wang… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Nitride ceramics have been investigated for different applications in the nuclear industry,
such as space nuclear power, fusion reactor diagnostics and plasma heating, inert matrix …

Subscale maturation of advanced reactor technologies (SMART): A path forward for nuclear thermal propulsion fuel and reactor development

WT Searight, KB Palomares, JE Werner… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) systems are actively being developed for future
crewed missions to Mars. NTP systems excel in missions where both high thrust and high …

DFT and experimental study on the thermal conductivity of U3O8 and U3O8-X;(X= Al and Mo)

JI Ranasinghe, L Malakkal, B Szpunar, A Prasad… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this article, a theoretical and experimental investigation on the phonon thermal
conductivity (κ L) of α-U 3 O 8 in the temperature range of 300 to 1000 K is reported. The …

[图书][B] High Temperature Furnace Testing of Structural Materials for Advanced Terrestrial and Space Reactors

WT Searight - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Advanced reactors, both fission and fusion, have much more demanding environments than
light-water reactors in terms of high temperature/heat flux, radiation flux and corrosion. To …

Energetics of oxidation and formation of uranium mononitride

VG Vitalay, J Liu, K Kriegsman, C Benmore… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - osti.gov
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 …