TRISO Material Science and Microstructure

Micromechanical Properties of the SiC and Pyrolytic Carbon Layers in Tristructural-Isotropic Coated Particles

10:00–10:25AM CDT

Katherine I. Montoya (ORNL), Erik Herbert (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL), Tyler J. Gerczak (ORNL)

Sensitivity Analysis Applied to Mechanistic Calculation for Effective Diffusivity of Ag through the SiC Layer in TRISO particles with BISON

10:25–10:50AM CDT

Caitlyn B. Parsons (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Pierre-Clément A. Simon (Idaho National Lab), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)

Investigation into the Effects of Pd Chemical Attack on Silicon Carbide in TRISO Particle Fuel

10:50–11:15AM CDT

Bailey T. Bertrand (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Wen Jiang (North Carolina State University Nuclear Engineering Department), Brian D. Wirth (University of Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Department)

Lower Length Scale Simulations of Pd Solubility and Transport in TRISO Fuel Kernels

11:15–11:40AM CDT

Michael W. Cooper (LANL), Benjamin Liu (LANL), Antoine Claisse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Darren Skitt (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Parvez Khambatta (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Christopher Matthews (LANL)