| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Accelerated Qualification of Nuclear Materials Integrating Experiments, Modeling, and Theories
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| Presentation Title |
Challenges Related to Traditional Qualification of Fuels and Materials for Nuclear Reactors |
| Author(s) |
Anne A. Campbell, Josina Geringer, Yanli Wang, John Hunn, Tyler Gerczak |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Anne A. Campbell |
| Abstract Scope |
The earliest nuclear reactors were built without prior knowledge as to how the fuel and core internals would behave. Since then, the understanding that fuels and materials properties are affected by neutron damage, high temperature, and corrosive environments has been realized. This has led to efforts to measure, quantify, and understand these changes prior to the use of novel fuels or materials in nuclear reactors (i.e. qualification programs). Safety codes from the American Nuclear Society or the American Society of Mechanical Engineers provide guidelines for qualifying fuels and materials, but the requirements can make the process onerous due to both monetary and time investments to produce the experimental data. This presentation will discuss programs that are working towards qualification of materials and fuels for advanced nuclear reactors and the practical challenges of these programs to highlight why accelerated qualification methods are critical to near-term deployment of advanced nuclear reactors. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Nuclear Materials, |