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2003 International RERTR Meeting

DART-TM: A THERMOMECHANICAL VERSION OF DART FOR LEU VHD DISPERSED AND MONOLITHIC FUEL ANALYSIS

 Saliba, Roberto; Taboada, Horacio; Moscarda, Ma.Virginia
CNEA, Av. Libertador 8250, (1429) Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Rest, Jeff
Argonne National Laboratory,
9700 South Cass Ave. Illinois 60349, USA

ABSTRACT

A collaboration agreement between ANL/USDOE and CNEA Argentina, in the area of Low Enriched Uranium Advanced Fuels has been in place since October 16, 1997 under the “Implementation Arrangement for Technical Exchange and Cooperation in the Area of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy”. An annex concerning DART code optimization has been operative since February 8, 1999.  Previously, as a part of this annex a visual thermal FASTDART version was developed that includes mechanistic models for the calculation of the fission-gas-bubble and fuel particle size distribution, reaction layer thickness, and meat thermal conductivity.  FASTDART was presented at the last RERTR Meeting that included validation against RERTR 3 irradiation data.  The thermal FASTDART version was assessed as an adequate tool for modeling the behavior of LEU U-Mo dispersed fuels under irradiation against PIE RERTR irradiation data.

During this past year the development of a 3-D thermo-mechanical version of the code for modeling the irradiation behavior of LEU U-Mo monolithic and dispersion fuel was initiated.


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