The Effect of Thermal Cycling on Mechanical Behavior of U-10Mo Monolithic Mini-Plate (original) (raw)

Volume 6B: Energy, 2016

Abstract

Mini fuel plates used in Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) undergo five steps during the reator operation: startup, ATR Cycle 146A, transition from Cycle 146A to 146B, ATR Cycle 146B, and shutdown. Although the overall irradiation behavior of U-10Mo fuel is expected to be similar to the reactors operating at comparable power levels, there is a concern regarding how variation in operation schedules (that is, how many start-ups and shut-downs could be inserted during the Cycle A and Cycle B) may affect the mechanical behavior of the fuel plate during operation. To investigate any potential effect of number of start-stop activities, we simulated the thermo-mechanical behavior of L1P756 mini-plate, one of fuel plates inserted in ATR under RERTR-12 irradiation conditions with various numbers of start-stop activities artificially added at different points of time in irradiation cycle. This paper reviews four cases by varying the number of thermal cycles. Finite Element (FE) analyses were perfor...

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