Oxidation of Metallic Nuclear Fuels and Cladding
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion and Protection".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 473
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nuclear fuel manufacture and characterization; nuclear materials; corrosion; oxidation; electron microscopy; radiation damage
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Dear Colleagues,
Metals, alloys, and intermetallics are of high interest to the nuclear industry because of their extensive use in nuclear fuel assemblies. The development of novel metallic nuclear fuels, fuel claddings, and coating materials is driving the deployment of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) technology into current generation nuclear power plants. In addition, new high-density metallic fuels (HDFs) offer the possibility to replace highly enriched uranium fuel (HEU), which is currently used in test reactors, with lower enriched fuels, with the aim of reducing proliferation risks. However, through this deployment, these novel metallic fuels, cladding, and coating materials may be exposed to high temperature oxidative atmospheres during normal operation or in off-normal accident scenarios, particularly in water-cooled nuclear reactors. The design criteria for these ATF and HDF assemblies have led to recent advances in the following:
- development of new metallic uranium fuels, cladding materials, and coating barriers
- development of an in-depth understanding of their oxidation behaviour under a variety of conditions, such as air and steam oxidation
- detailed characterization of oxidation products
- oxidation kinetics and elucidation of oxidation mechanisms
All of the above will be required in order to predict the in-service behaviour of future nuclear fuel assemblies.
In this Special Issue of Metals, we encourage contributions that report on any of these areas, as well as submissions reporting any recent developments in the understanding of the oxidation behaviour of metallic nuclear fuel and cladding materials for applications in current or advanced nuclear technologies.
Dr. Robert W. Harrison
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nuclear fuel
- metallic nuclear fuel
- fuel cladding
- oxidation
- corrosion
- kinetics
- corrosion mechanisms
