User's manuals of fuel pin performance codes for irradiation experiment analysis

*; *; *; *; Shikakura, Sakae*; *

PNC TN952 80-01, 180 Pages, 1980/04

PNC-TN952-80-01.pdf:4.13MB

Fuel pin performance codes have been provided in order to analyze thermal and mechanical behavior during steady state irradiation, and to evaluate gap conductance by experimental and semi-theoretical method based on post-irradiation examination data. This documentation describes user's manuals of four fuel performance codes as follows. (1)GRO-II ; stress-strain analyses for fast reactor fuel pin during normal operation. (2)SIEX ; thermal behavior analyses for fast reactor fuel pin during steady state irradiation. (3)THERM ; gap conductance evaluation by experimental method for fast reactor fuel pin irradiated in fast and thermal flux. (4)HOTGAP ; gap conductance evaluation by semi-theoretical method for fast reactor fuel pin irradiated in fast and thermal flux.