About this Abstract |
Meeting |
MS&T22: Materials Science & Technology
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Symposium
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High Temperature Oxidation of Metals and Ceramics
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Presentation Title |
GE's Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding: An Overview of Accident Scenario Testing |
Author(s) |
Andrew K. Hoffman, Raul Rebak, Evan Dolley, Rajnikant Umretiya, Michael Worku |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Andrew K. Hoffman |
Abstract Scope |
Over the past decade General Electric (GE,a collaboration between GE Research, GE-Hitachi, and Global Nuclear Fuel) has worked intensively on the development of accident tolerant fuel cladding for the current light water reactor fleet as well as for the future fleet of small modular reactors. Concepts that are being developed include a proprietary coating for Zirc-2 tubing and monolithic thin walled FeCrAl tubing for fuel cladding and SiC-SiC composite development for accident tolerant fuel channels. This talk will provide an overview of testing performed on these concepts to simulate accident conditions, and discuss future planned worked for the qualification and commercialization of these concepts. |