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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Ki-Seob Sim, Ho Chun Suk, Young Ku Yoon
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 3 | September 1992 | Pages 351-365
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34719
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The KFGR-T computer model has been developed to predict transient fission gas release from UO2fuel with an emphasis on the nonequilibrium behavior of fission gas bubbles. It takes into account the relevant physical processes generally considered by other workers, as well as migration of fission gas bubbles through channels formed by the extension of dislocations to grain boundaries during the transient heatup stage, grain growth/grain-boundary sweeping during the isothermal annealing stage at high temperatures, and gas release through intergranular cracking. This computer model is applied to calculate transient fission gas releases, and the calculated values are compared with the results of out-of-pile experiments performed with UO2 fuel base-irradiated to burnups in the range of 18 to 35 MW·d/kg U. The absolute values and the trends of the fission gas releases calculated with the KFGR-T model are in good agreement with the experimental data. A parametric study is also done to investigate the sensitivity of the model to variables such as initial grain size, heating rate, temperature gradient, and initial gas concentration, and these results are compared with the sensitivity of other models.