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天谷 政樹
High Temperature Corrosion of Materials, 15 Pages, 2024/00
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.02(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)Zirconium (Zr)-based alloys are widely used as fuel cladding material for light water reactors. Under a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) condition, the oxidation of fuel cladding by high-temperature steam induces the degradation of mechanical properties of the cladding and would affect the integrity of fuel rods and/or assemblies, etc., during LOCA. In this study, the distribution of the elements (zirconium, oxygen, tin, iron and chromium) in Zircaloy-4 cladding specimens oxidized in the temperature range of 1350- 1700 K in steam was analyzed along the radial direction of the specimens by using SEM/EPMA, and the cause of element distribution in the specimens was discussed in consideration of the morphology of precipitates in the specimens and hypothesized phase diagrams related to the elements contained in the specimens. The form of the particles precipitated and the comparison between SEM/EPMA results and hypothesized phase diagrams of Zr-Sn-O system suggested that the liquefaction of tin-rich material and/or Zr-(Fe,Cr) compounds occurred during the oxidation test. The results obtained indicate that Zircaloy-4 cladding tubes would start melting at the melting point of tin-oxide and the eutectic point of Zr-(Fe,Cr)compounds, which is much lower than the melting point of Zr, -Zr(O), or zirconium oxide (ZrO).
伊藤 あゆみ*; 山下 晋; 田崎 雄大; 垣内 一雄; 小林 能直*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 60(4), p.450 - 459, 2023/04
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.01(Nuclear Science & Technology)The rapid dissolution of UO in molten Zr that could occur during fuel-cladding liquefaction at high temperatures and its kinetics were reformulated considering the convective mass transfer and the chemical effect at the UO/Zr interface. The mass transfer coefficient of U was obtained as a correlation including the aspect ratio term by CFD analysis. To explain the gap between the rapid dissolution rate observed in the experiments and the density-driven convective mass transfer, we introduced an idea in which the eutectic melting at the UO/Zr interface promotes the grain detachment owing to infiltration of the U-Zr-O liquid into the UO grain boundaries. The developed model was validated with UO-Zr crucible experiments at 2273 and 2373 K. The calculated mass percentage ratios of U/Zr agreed with the measurements and the transition times from rapid saturation to precipitation were consistent with the metallographic observations.
加藤 崇
平成4年度冷凍部会年間講演集, 0, p.25 - 30, 1993/00
核融合炉では、核融合炉の運転モードに対応して冷凍負荷が大幅に変動し、また、運転モード変更時には非定常操作が必要とされるため、冷凍負荷変動や非定常操作に追従できる運転制御が要求される。このような核融合炉用ヘリウム冷凍システムについて、運転モードと運転方法を紹介し、その問題と課題を検討した。