Steam oxidation of silicon carbide at high temperatures for the application as accident tolerant fuel cladding, an overview

Pham, V. H.; Kurata, Masaki; Steinbrueck, M.*

Thermo (Internet), 1(2), p.151 - 167, 2021/09

https://doi.org/10.3390/thermo1020011

Oxidation of silicon carbide in steam studied by laser heating

Pham, V. H.; Nagae, Yuji; Kurata, Masaki; Furumoto, Kenichiro*; Sato, Hisaki*; Ishibashi, Ryo*; Yamashita, Shinichiro

Proceedings of International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference / Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference (Global/Top Fuel 2019) (USB Flash Drive), p.670 - 674, 2019/09

High temperature oxidation test of simulated BWR fuel bundle in steam-starved conditions

Yamazaki, Saishun; Pshenichnikov, A.; Pham, V. H.; Nagae, Yuji; Kurata, Masaki; Tokushima, Kazuyuki*; Aomi, Masaki*; Sakamoto, Kan*

Proceedings of Annual Topical Meeting on Reactor Fuel Performance (TopFuel 2018) (Internet), 8 Pages, 2018/10

It is predictively evaluated that degradation of fuel assembly proceeded in a certain steam-starved condition at the early stage of a SA at 1F unit 2 (BWR). As for PWR fuel assembly, effective steam flow rate was properly indicated by normalizing to a unit of g-HO/sec/rod which is used as an important parameter for evaluating fuel degradation progression. Due to the inhomogeneous configuration of BWR fuel assembly, the difference of Zry oxidation and hydrogen uptake between the inside and outside of the channel box cannot be properly evaluated by this normalization. Instead of g-HO/sec/rod, proper evaluation unit for BWR configuration is necessary. To accumulate Zry oxidation and hydrogen uptake data for steam-starved conditions, high temperature oxidation tests were performed using a simulated BWR fuel bundle sample. The use of equivalent diameter of the cross section of BWR fuel assembly was proposed for normalization of effective steam flow rate.

High-temperature interaction of silicon carbide with steam above 1600C

Pham, V. H.; Nagae, Yuji; Kurata, Masaki

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Consideration for modeling of Zry oxidation and hydrogen uptake in steam-starved conditions

Yamazaki, Saishun; Pshenichnikov, A.; Pham, V. H.; Nagae, Yuji; Kurata, Masaki

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Behavior of ZrO scale formed on zircaloy in steam starvation conditions

Nakajima, Shotaro*; Matsuura, Suguru*; Nanko, Makoto*; Kurata, Masaki; Pham, V. H.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Development of laser heating facility for steam oxidation at extreme temperatures

Kurata, Masaki; Pham, V. H.; Nagae, Yuji

no journal, , 

R&D for introducing silicon carbide materials to safety improvement of BWR's core, 7; Oxidation kinetics of SiC at 1400-1600C under different steam flow rate

Pham, V. H.; Nagae, Yuji; Kurata, Masaki; Ishibashi, Ryo*

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