TY - GEN
T1 - Development of the cooling technology on TRU fuel pin bundle during fuel fabrication process
T2 - International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP 2008
AU - Takata, Takashi
AU - Yamaguchi, Akira
AU - Hishida, Koichi
AU - Kuroda, Taichiro
AU - Itoh, Kunihiro
AU - Ikeda, Kazuo
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In the trans-uranium (TRU) fuel bundle fabrication process, a fuel pin is spirally wrapped with a thin wire in order to keep a clearance between fuel pins and is laid horizontally. Air flows into the gaps vertically across the pin bundle so as to suppress temperature increase due to decay heat of TRU during the fabrication. From a safety point of view, an effective cooling is of importance. In the present study, an analytical tool, based on a subchannel thermal-hydraulics simulation, has been developed to investigate the thermal-hydraulic behavior and to predict the maximum temperature and the temperature distribution inside the fuel bundle.
AB - In the trans-uranium (TRU) fuel bundle fabrication process, a fuel pin is spirally wrapped with a thin wire in order to keep a clearance between fuel pins and is laid horizontally. Air flows into the gaps vertically across the pin bundle so as to suppress temperature increase due to decay heat of TRU during the fabrication. From a safety point of view, an effective cooling is of importance. In the present study, an analytical tool, based on a subchannel thermal-hydraulics simulation, has been developed to investigate the thermal-hydraulic behavior and to predict the maximum temperature and the temperature distribution inside the fuel bundle.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349860133
SN - 9781605607870
T3 - International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP 2008
SP - 1916
EP - 1922
BT - American Nuclear Society - International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP 2008
Y2 - 8 June 2008 through 12 June 2008
ER -