Abstract: Thorium-based fuel cycles can improve fuel sustainability within the nuclear power industry. The Canadian supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR) concept uses this path to achieve the sustainability requirement of the ...

Abstract: Predicting the power distribution within nuclear fuel is essential for predicting reactor fuel performance, since power distributions can impact pellet temperature distributions and fission product transport and migration. ...

Abstract: The behavior of fission gas, notably accommodation within intra- and intergranular bubbles, influences the macroscopic properties and overall performance of oxide fuels. This work discusses progress to capture key fission ...