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天谷 政樹; 宇田川 豊; 成川 隆文; 三原 武; 谷口 良徳
Proceedings of Annual Topical Meeting on Reactor Fuel Performance (TopFuel 2018) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2018/10
Fuels for light water reactors (LWRs) which consist of improved cladding materials and pellets have been developed by utilities and fuel vendors to acquire better fuel performance even in the high burnup region and also raise the safety level of current nuclear power plants to a higher one. In order to evaluate adequacy of the present regulatory criteria in Japan and safety margins regarding the fuel with improved materials, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has conducted ALPS-II program sponsored by Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Japan. In this program, the tests simulating a reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) have been performed on the high burnup advanced fuels irradiated in commercial PWR or BWR in Europe. This paper presents recent results obtained in this program with respect to RIA, and main results of LOCA experiments, which have been obtained in the ALPS-II program, are summarized.
山内 紹裕*; 天谷 政樹
Proceedings of Annual Topical Meeting on Reactor Fuel Performance (TopFuel 2018) (Internet), 7 Pages, 2018/10
Zry-4被覆管の昇温時の水素固溶限に及ぼす製造時最終熱処理の影響を調べるため、予備水素吸収させた冷間加工、応力除去焼きなまし、再結晶焼鈍しZry-4被覆管を用いたDSC測定を50-600
Cの範囲で実施した。得られたDSC曲線及び金相写真から、水素化物の初期状態が水素化物の固溶挙動に影響を与えることが示唆された。本試験で得られたTSSD温度及び水素濃度のアレニウスプロットより、冷間加工材が最大のTSSDを示し、次いで応力除去焼きなまし材、再結晶焼きなまし材の順であることがわかった。本試験の結果は、Zry-4被覆管の製造時最終熱処理に起因する微細組織の違いが水素化物の固溶挙動に影響を及ぼすことを示唆した。
CPham, V. H.; 永江 勇二; 倉田 正輝
Proceedings of Annual Topical Meeting on Reactor Fuel Performance (TopFuel 2018) (Internet), 6 Pages, 2018/10
High temperature interaction of chemical vapor deposition SiC with steam was investigated at 1700-1800C for 0.1-3 h in a mixture of steam and argon gas containing 98% of steam at 1 atm. At the investigated conditions, although a dense oxide layer was observed on sample surface, significant mass loss of SiC occurred. Below 1700C, the oxidation kinetics seems to follow the para-linear laws. The apparent activation calculated based on the data of this study is to be 370 kJ/mol. Rapid degradation and bubbling of SiC at 1800C were observed after 1 h oxidation. This suggested that chemical interaction behaviours above 1700C might be changed due to the liquefaction of silica.
山崎 宰春; Pshenichnikov, A.; Pham, V. H.; 永江 勇二; 倉田 正輝; 徳島 二之*; 青見 雅樹*; 坂本 寛*
Proceedings of Annual Topical Meeting on Reactor Fuel Performance (TopFuel 2018) (Internet), 8 Pages, 2018/10
燃料集合体の酸化及び水素吸収はその後の事故進展挙動に影響を与えることから、PWR燃料集合体では、実効的な水蒸気流量としてg-H
O/sec/rodという単位が導入されており、事故進展評価の重要なパラメータといて用いられている。一方BWRにおいては、燃料集合体の構成がPWRとは異なることにより、PWRで用いられている規格化された水蒸気流量ではチャンネルボックスの内外での酸化及び水素吸収の差が正確に評価できない。そのため、PWRで用いられているg-HO/sec/rodという規格化された水蒸気流量に代わる、適切な評価パラメータがBWRでも必要である。そこで、ジルカロイの水蒸気枯渇条件での酸化及び水素吸収データを取得するため、実機を模擬したBWRバンドル試験体を用いて高温酸化試験を行なった。BWRにおける水蒸気流量を規格化するため、水蒸気流路断面積を考慮したパラメータを検討した。
高畠 容子; 安倍 弘; 佐野 雄一; 竹内 正行; 小泉 健治; 坂本 寛*; 山下 真一郎
Proceedings of Annual Topical Meeting on Reactor Fuel Performance (TopFuel 2018) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2018/10
事故耐性軽水炉燃料の燃料被覆管として開発されているFeCrAl-ODS鋼の硝酸腐食評価を、使用済燃料再処理工程に対して燃料被覆管腐食生成物が与える影響を評価するために実施した。3mol/L硝酸における腐食試験を、60C, 80C,沸騰条件において実施し、浸漬試験の試験片に対してはXPS分析を行った。沸騰条件にて最も腐食が進展し、腐食速度は0.22mm/yであった。酸化被膜内のFe割合は減少しており、CrとAlの割合は増加していた。腐食試験の結果、FeCrAl-ODS鋼は高い硝酸腐食耐性を持つため、再処理工程中の溶解工程において許容可能であることを確かめた。
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l, M.*; Rossiter, G.*; Dethioux, A.*; Zhang, J.*; 天谷 政樹; Rozzia, D.*; Williamson, R.*; Kozlowski, T.*; Hill, I.*; Martin, J.-F.*
Proceedings of Annual Topical Meeting on Reactor Fuel Performance (TopFuel 2018) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2018/10
The benchmark on PCMI was initiated by OECD/NEA Expert Group on Reactor Fuel Performance (EGRFP) in June 2015 and is currently in the latter stages of compiling results and preparing the final report. The aim of the benchmark is to improve understanding and modelling of PCMI amongst NEA member organisations. This is being achieved by comparing PCMI predictions of different fuel performance codes for a number of cases. Two of these cases are hypothetical cases aiming to facilitate understanding of the effects of code-to-code differences in fuel performance models. The two remaining cases are actual irradiations, where code predictions are compared with measured data. During analysis of participants' results of the hypothetical cases, the assumptions for number of radial pellet cracks and the pellet-clad friction coefficient (which can be zero, finite or infinite) were identified to be important factors in explaining differences between predictions once pellet-cladding contact occurs. However, these parameters varied in the models and codes used originally by the participants. This fact led to the extension of the benchmark by inclusion of two additional cases, where the number of radial pellet cracks and three different values of the friction coefficient were prescribed in the case definition. Seven calculations from six organisations contributed results were compared and analysed in this paper.
山下 真一郎; 井岡 郁夫; 根本 義之; 川西 智弘; 加治 芳行; 深堀 智生; 野澤 貴史*; 渡部 清一*; 村上 望*; 佐藤 寿樹*; et al.
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In order to increase accident tolerance of light water reactors (LWRs), fuel rod, channel box and control rod with new materials and concepts have been considered and developed in Japan. Since 2015, Japan Atomic Energy Agency has conducted and coordinated the Japanese R&D program of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) for establishing technical basis of ATF under a program sponsored and organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). ATF candidate materials considered in this METI program are silicon carbide (SiC) composite and FeCrAl steel strengthened by dispersion of fine oxide particles (FeCrAl-ODS). SiC composite is a highly attractive material because of its lower hydrogen generation rate and lower reaction heat in comparison with conventional Zircaloy. Therefore, practical uses for a fuel cladding of pressurized water reactor (PWR) and for the fuel cladding, channel box of boiling water reactor (BWR) are expected. On the other hand, FeCrAl-ODS steel is a promising material and is considered to apply to the fuel cladding of BWR. Until now, we have been accumulated experimental data of the candidate materials by out-of-pile tests, developed fuel evaluation codes to apply to the candidate materials, evaluated fuel behavior simulating operational and accidental conditions by the developed code. In this paper, we will report the updates of out-of-pile data and evaluation results.
