Open AccessStudy and assessment of (FeCrAl) and (SiC) as candidate materials for accident tolerant fuel cladding in LWRs
Author(s) -
Mamoun I. A. Sagiroun,
Xiaoyan Cao,
Anuor A. T. Ayoub
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/758/1/012085
Subject(s) - cladding (metalworking) , materials science , silicon carbide , zirconium , light water reactor , metallurgy , carbide , zirconium alloy , aluminium , nuclear engineering , engineering
Iron-chromium-aluminum (FeCrAl) alloys and Silicon-carbide (SiC) are considered the best choice proposed as alternative cladding materials to replace Zirconium (Zr) alloys to improve the accidents tolerance in light water reactor (LWR) cladding which have much highly oxidation resistance in high-temperature steam than Zr alloys, which lead to maintaining high performance under normal operations and enhancing safety margins during severe accidents. In this work great results were showed in the thermo-physical properties for the candidate materials compared with zirconium.