Cladding corrosion and hydriding in irradiated defected zircaloy fuel rods
Description:
Twenty-one LWBR irradiation test rods containing ThO/sub 2/-UO/sub 2/ fuel and Zircaloy cladding with holes or cracks operated successfully. Zircaloy cladding corrosion on the inside and outside diameter surfaces and hydrogen pickup in the cladding were measured. The observed outer surface Zircaloy cladding corrosion oxide thicknesses of the test rods were similar to thicknesses measured for nondefected irradiation test rods. An analysis model, which was developed to calculate outer surface oxi…
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Date:
August 1985
Creator:
Clayton, J. C.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department