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成川 隆文; 天谷 政樹
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 57(1), p.68 - 78, 2020/01
被引用回数：2 パーセンタイル：21.22(Nuclear Science & Technology)To evaluate the fracture limit of high-burnup advanced fuel cladding tubes under loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) conditions, laboratory-scale integral thermal shock tests were performed using the following advanced fuel cladding tubes with burnups of 73 - 85 GWd/t: M-MDA
, low-tin ZIRLO, M5
, and Zircaloy-2 (LK3). In total eight integral thermal shock tests were performed for these specimens, simulating LOCA conditions including ballooning and rupture, oxidation, hydriding, and quenching. During the tests, the specimens were oxidized to 10% - 30% equivalent cladding reacted (ECR) at approximately 1473 K and were quenched under axial restraint load of approximately 520 - 530 N. The effects of burnup extension and use of the advanced fuel cladding tubes on the ballooning and rupture, oxidation, and hydriding under LOCA conditions were inconsiderable. Further, the high-burnup advanced fuel cladding tube specimens did not fracture in the ECR values equal to or lower than the fracture limits of the unirradiated Zircaloy-4 cladding tube reported in previous studies. Therefore, it can be concluded that the fracture limit of fuel cladding tubes is not significantly reduced by extending the burnup to approximately 85 GWd/t and using the advanced fuel cladding tubes, though it slightly decreases with increasing initial hydrogen concentration.
成川 隆文; 山口 彰*; Jang, S.*; 天谷 政樹
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 331, p.147 - 152, 2018/05
被引用回数：3 パーセンタイル：29.78(Nuclear Science & Technology)To quantify the fracture boundary uncertainty for non-irradiated, pre-hydrided Zircaloy-4 cladding tube specimens under loss-of-coolant accident conditions at a light-water reactor, data from integral thermal shock tests obtained by an earlier study are analyzed statistically and the fracture boundary is estimated in terms of probability, as follows. First, a method is proposed to obtain the specimens' fracture probability curve as a function of equivalent cladding reacted (ECR) and initial hydrogen concentration using Bayesian inference with a generalized linear model. A log-probit model is used, modified to reflect the effect of the initial hydrogen concentration on the fracture boundary and the ECR evaluation uncertainty, and scaled to improve convergence. Second, using the modified log-probit model, it is shown that the boundary representing a 5% fracture probability with 95% confidence for the pre-hydrided cladding tube sample is higher than 15% ECR, for initial hydrogen concentrations of up to 800 wppm.
永瀬 文久; 更田 豊志
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 42(2), p.209 - 218, 2005/02
被引用回数：47 パーセンタイル：93.51(Nuclear Science & Technology)冷却材喪失事故(LOCA)時の高燃焼度燃料棒挙動に関し、未照射ジルカロイ-4被覆管を用い、LOCA模擬試験を行った。水素濃度約100
1400ppmを有する被覆管を、水蒸気中にて12201500Kの温度範囲で等温酸化した後、冠水により急冷した。急冷時に生じる燃料棒の収縮を拘束したが、生じる荷重の最大値を4段階に調節した。主として肉厚に占める酸化割合に依存して、被覆管は急冷時に周方向亀裂を伴って破断した。酸化割合に関する破断/非破断のしきい値は、初期水素濃度と拘束荷重の増大とともに低下した。結局、拘束荷重が535N以下であれば、水素濃度にかかわらず、破断しきい値は酸化割合20%を超え、日本におけるECCS性能評価指針の基準値を上回ることが明らかになった。
永瀬 文久; 更田 豊志
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 41(7), p.723 - 730, 2004/07
被引用回数：45 パーセンタイル：92.54(Nuclear Science & Technology)冷却材喪失事故(LOCA)条件を模擬した実験を行い、酸化したジルカロイ-4被覆管の耐熱衝撃性に及ぼす水素吸収の影響を評価した。試験には人工的に水素を添加した被覆管(400600ppm)と水素を添加しない被覆管を用いた。急冷時の被覆管破断は主として酸化量に依存することから、破断しきい値を「等価被覆酸化量(ECR)」に関して評価した。被覆管を軸方向に拘束しない条件では、破断しきい値は56%ECRであり、水素添加の影響は見られなかった。急冷時に被覆管を拘束することにより破断しきい値は低下し、水素を添加した被覆管でより顕著であった。完全拘束条件下での破断しきい値は、水素を添加しない被覆管で20%ECR、添加した被覆管で10%ECRであった。本試験の結果は、LOCA条件下で高燃焼度燃料棒の破断しきい値が低下する可能性を示している。
