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 |
Results of MARGARET Fission Gas and Microstructure Model, Following Latest Developments |
Author(s) |
Matteo Vergani, Laurence Noirot |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Matteo Vergani |
Abstract Scope |
We present the results of the advanced gas model MARGARET, obtained adapting the model to the latest discoveries. New Molecular Dynamics simulations from the literature have been performed to study the phenomenon of dynamic resolution of gas from intra-granular bubbles. Starting from those simulations, we have built a new resolution model that can be adopted by fuel performance codes. Recent experiments give two relevant indications: Firstly, inter-granular bubbles, below a certain temperature, do not form an interconnected network. Secondly, at high burn-up and in the central region of the pellet, grains divide into slightly disoriented sub-domains. Therefore, we introduced in MARGARET both the phenomenon of long-range diffusion through inter-granular grain-boundaries and a description of those sub-domains. The final objective of our work is to calibrate the new version of MARGARET including these features and compare it with experimental data. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Nuclear Materials, Computational Materials Science & Engineering |