Sintering behavior of UO2-Er2O3 mixed fuel

被引：14

作者：

Durazzo, Michelangelo ^{[1
]}

Freitas, Artur C. ^{[1
]}

Sansone, Alberto E. S. ^{[1
]}

Ferreira, Nildemar A. M. ^{[1
]}

Urano de Carvalho, Elita E. ^{[1
]}

Riella, Humberto G. ^{[1
,2
]}

Leal Neto, Ricardo M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] IPEN CNEN SP, Nucl & Energy Res Inst, Sao Paulo, Brazil

[2] Santa Catarina Fed Univ, Chem Engn Dept, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

来源：

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS | 2018年 / 510卷

关键词：

Nuclear fuel; Burnable poison; Erbium oxide; Uranium dioxide; Mixed fuel; Sintering; THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY; BURNABLE ABSORBERS; UO2-GD2O3; DENSITY; ERBIUM; UO2; (U;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.08.051

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

The incorporation of burnable neutron absorbers into nuclear fuel pellets is important regarding reactivity compensation, which enables longer fuel cycles. The dry mechanical blending route is the most attractive process to accomplish absorbers incorporation because of its simplicity. By using this route, the present work has investigated the sintering behavior of UO2-Er2O3 mixed fuel. A comparison with UO2-Gd2O3 sintering behavior was presented. The behavior of UO2-Er2O3 fuel sintering was similar to that reported for UO2-Gd2O3 fuel, e.g. two-stage sintering with two peaks in the shrinkage rate curves. The effect showed to be less pronounced for Er2O3. This was attributed to the characteristics of the Er2O3 powder particles used as raw-material, whose agglomerates can be more easily broken and thus better homogenized during the blending with UO2 powder. These results confirmed that sinterability depends directly on the quality of the homogenization of the powders, as seen previously. A second phase was experimentally detected in the UO2-Er2O3 system, but its impact on the sintering behavior of this mixed fuel has not yet been clarified. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：603 / 612

页数：10

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