Thermal and Reliability Criteria for Nuclear Fuel Safety

摘要

Essential reading for anyone working in nuclear plant maintenance and safety, this book covers basic approaches to the nuclear fuel state of reactors in the last stages of the fuel cycle. The authors look at the physical safety basis of VVER nuclear fuel and discuss modern approaches to heat exchange modeling. Other topics covered are safety criteria for VVER-1000 fuel assembly dry storage, the effect of reactor capacity cyclic changes on energy accumulation of creep formations in fuel cladding, and an analysis of VVER-1000 fuel cladding failure. Also included is a description of thermal safety criteria for dry storage of spent nuclear fuel.