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Sugiyama, Tomoyuki; Fuketa, Toyoshi
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 41(11), p.1083 - 1090, 2004/11
Times Cited Count：10 Percentile：55.63(Nuclear Science & Technology)The effect of cladding surface pre-oxidation on the rod coolability under reactivity initiated accidents was investigated. NSRR tests on irradiated fuel rods have shown higher rod coolability than that of fresh rods, which arose from suppressed DNB and early quench at the surface. To identify the dominant factor, possible factors such as pellet cracking and so on, were assessed. The most probable factor, the cladding pre-oxidation, was examined by pulse irradiation tests on fresh rods with three cladding surface conditions, no oxide layer, 1
m and 10m-thick oxide layers. Temperature measurements showed increased thresholds for DNB and quench at the pre-oxidized surface, leading to a reduced film boiling duration. The shifts of the critical and minimum heat flux points could be caused by the surface wettability increase. In the present tests, the wettability change was probably dominated by the chemical potential change at the surface due to pre-oxidation. The test results indicate the effects do not depend on the oxide layer thickness, but on the presence of the oxide layer.
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Yosetsu Gakkai-Shi, 34(7), p.696 - 701, 1965/00
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Yosetsu Gakkai-Shi, 33(6), p.458 - 461, 1964/00
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