“…At high temperatures, thermal creep strongly influences the fuel rod behaviour; hence, a reliable evaluation of this phenomenon is necessary. Several correlations can be found in the open literature for T91 (22)(23)(24), some of them (23,24) giving unsuitable predictions in the XADS conditions (temperature range of 350-550 • C, stresses below 80 MPa). The correlation given in (22) has been implemented in the TU code: it results in a good agreement with the experimental data reported in the more recent literature (23,25,26) (Figure 2(a)) even if the temperatures considered in (25,26) are out of the range of the correlation (375-600 • C); the discrepancies at the end of life are due to the tertiary creep not considered in the correlation.…”