...B. Szpunar; J. A. Szpunar Many factors need to be investigated before alternative nuclear fuel can be adapted for service in the harsh environment of a nuclear reactor. Urania, used conventionally as a nuclear fuel, has a low thermal conductivity, which degrades with increasing stoichiometric...

... DRAGON and is used together with the temperature-dependent fuel thermal conductivity to analytically solve the heat conduction equation and thus calculate the temperature profile inside the fuel pin. Results indicate that, for fresh fuel, the centerline temperature is much lower for a two-region pin than...

... thermal conductivity The pressure-tube supercritical water-cooled reactor, or PT-SCWR, is the next-generation (Generation IV) innovative water-cooled reactor concept being developed in Canada. The reactor uses pressurized water above its thermodynamic critical pressure as the reactor coolant...