Metallic fuels handbook

Experimental assessment of thermophysical properties of (Pu,Zr)N

“…7 shows that all the present experimental data, corrected to fullydense materials with the modified Maxwell-Eucken correlation mentioned above (b = 2), were located within a channel delimited by two calculated correlations. It is seen that the present corrected data were systematically about 20% higher than the values predicted by the Harwell recommendation [16] (based on (U, Pu)N data), and approximately 15% lower than the values calculated from the model developed at ANL for Zr-U metallic alloys [19], extended to Zr-Pu binary alloys, and roughly applied here with the ZrN present data and PuN available data from Arai et al The best fit of experimental data was given by the following correlation:…”

Preliminary core design studies for the advanced burner reactor over a wide range of conversion ratios.

“…For U-TRU-Zr ternary metal fuel, the fresh fuel thermal conductivity was determined as a function of U, TRU, and Zr weight fractions using the correlation for U-Pu-Zr fuel [13], and a porosity correction factor of 0.5 was applied to take into account the irradiation effects. It was noted that this metal fuel correlation significantly underestimates the thermal conductivity for high TRU fractions greater than 30%.…”

Preliminary estimation of isotopic inventories of 2000 MWt ABR (revision 1).

“…Hot channel factors of 2.67, 1.10, 1.48 and 1.24 were used for the film, cladding, gap and coolant regions, respectively. For metal alloy fuel, the fresh fuel thermal conductivity was determined as a function of U, TRU, and Zr weight fractions using the correlation for U-Pu-Zr fuel [9], and a porosity correction factor of 0.5 was applied to take into account the irradiation effects. The fuel solidus temperature was also estimated as a function of constituent mole fractions using the correlation for U-Pu-Zr fuel [10].…”

“…-49 - .000E+09 XE135 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.870E+07 4.375E+07 5.497E+07 0.000E+00 1.174E+08 I134 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.803E+07 4.211E+07 5.292E+07 0.000E+00 1.131E+08 RU103 6.923E+06 1.623E+07 2.022E+07 2.234E+07 6.572E+07 1.785E+07 4.185E+07 5.188E+07 6.026E+04 1.116E+08 XE133 2.697E+05 6.308E+05 7.924E+05 8.513E+05 2.544E+06 1.743E+07 4.074E+07 5.107E+07 4.901E-14 1.092E+08 I133 4.421E-04 1.034E-03 1.302E-03 1.386E-03 4.165E-03 1.707E+07 3.990E+07 5.024E+07 0.000E+00 1.072E+08 TC103 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.696E+07 3.967E+07 5.000E+07 0.000E+00 1.066E+08 TC102 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.671E+07 3.907E+07 4.919E+07 0.000E+00 1.050E+08 MO102 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.667E+07 3.898E+07 4.908E+07 0.000E+00 1.047E+08 I135 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.646E+07 3.848E+07 4.843E+07 0.000E+00 1.034E+08 MO103 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.655E+07 3.872E+07 4.879E+07 0.000E+00 1.041E+08 TC104 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.624E+07 3.799E+07 4.782E+07 0.000E+00 1.021E+08 TC101 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.680E+07 3.927E+07 4.917E+07 0.000E+00 1.052E+08 MO101 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.679E+07 3.925E+07 4.914E+07 0.000E+00 1.052E+08 CS138 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.575E+07 3.683E+07 4.633E+07 0.000E+00 9 BA139 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.474E+07 3.444E+07 4.329E+07 0.000E+00 9.247E+07 BA140 1.782E+06 4.167E+06 5.242E+06 5.592E+06 1.678E+07 1.359E+07 3.177E+07 3.994E+07 7.189E-02 8.530E+07 CE141 5.064E+06 1.187E+07 1.487E+07 1.589E+07 4.769E+07 1.432E+07 3.355E+07 4.206E+07 1.250E+04 8.995E+07 CE143 2.052E+00 4.797E+00 6.026E+00 6.471E+00 1.935E+01 1.133E+07 2.647E+07 3.322E+07 0.000E+00 7.102E+07 CE144 4.023E+06 9.427E+06 1.176E+07 1.657E+07 4.178E+07 7.175E+06 1.681E+07 2.097E+07 7.320E+06 5.227E+07 CS134 1.808E+05 4.138E+05 3.556E+05 1.663E+06 2.613E+06 5.092E+05 1.176E+06 1.001E+06 1.221E+06 3.908E+06 CS136 7.315E+04 1.705E+05 1.906E+05 3.063E+05 7.406E+05 6.201E+05 1.449E+06 1.552E+06 6.074E-03 3.621E+06 -53 - 2.031E+04 4.751E+04 5.891E+04 1.228E+05 2.495E+05 4.019E+04 9.407E+04 1.165E+05 1.157E+05 3.664E+05 KR 85M 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.560E+06 3.641E+06 4.587E+06 0.000E+00 9.788E+06 KR 87 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 2.533E+06 5.901E+06 7.407E+06 0.000E+00 1.584E+07 KR 88 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 3.514E+06 8.182E+06 1.027E+07 0.000E+00 2.197E+07 LA140 2.051E+06 4.796E+06 6.033E+06 6.436E+06 1.932E+07 1.375E+07 3.213E+07 4.028E+07 8.272E-02 8.616E+07 LA141 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.405E+07 3.286E+07 4.142E+07 0.000E+00 8.833E+07 LA142 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.237E+07 2.890E+07 3.640E+07 0.000E+00 7.767E+07 MO 99 5.280E+03 1.234E+04 1.546E+04 1.682E+04 4.991E+04 1.534E+07 3.585E+07 4.476E+07 0.000E+00 9.596E+07 NB 95 7.552E+06 1.770E+07 2.213E+07 2.407E+07 7.145E+07 1.219E+07 2.858E+07 3.574E+07 1.080E+06 7.758E+07 ND147 5.577E+05 1.302E+06 1.624E+06 1.799E+06 5.283E+06 5.556E+06 1.296E+07 1.608E+07 1.350E-03 3.460E+07 PR143 1.808E+06 4.228E+06 5.314E+06 5.703E+06 1.705E+07 1.131E+07 2.643E+07 3.318E+07 2.071E-01 7.092E+07 RB 86 9.236E+03 2.115E+04 1.831E+04 5.687E+04 1.056E+05 6.110E+04 1.414E+05 1.193E+05 2.217E-01 3.218E+05 RH105 7.382E+00 1.728E+01 2.160E+01 2.382E+01 7.008E+01 1.315E+07 3.076E+07 3.827E+07 0.000E+00 8.218E+07 RU105 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 1.323E+07 3.093E+07 3.840E+07 0.000E+00 8.256E+07 RU106 4.222E+06 9.928E+06 1.241E+07 1.869E+07 4.525E+07 7.614E+06 1.790E+07 2.237E+07 9.941E+06 5.782E+07 SB127 4.334E+03 1.010E+04 1.269E+04 1.360E+04 4.073E+04 1.424E+06 3.321E+06 4.167E+06 8.267E-23 8.912E+06 SB129 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 3.541E+06 8.269E+06 1.040E+07 0.000E...…”