Accident-Tolerant Fuels: Advanced Coatings and Cladding Technologies
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 369
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Light water reactors (LWRs) are the dominant reactor type in the current reactor fleet worldwide. After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, a series of new concepts and technologies related to accident-tolerant fuels (ATFs) have been proposed to enhance the safety of commercial nuclear power plants and significantly increase the coping time under accident scenarios. To name a few, advanced metallic or ceramic cladding coatings, doped UO2 pellets, FeCrAl as coating or cladding, and silicon carbide composite cladding have been proposed by different research institutions and nuclear industry vendors as possible ATF options. The aim of this Special Issue is to advance the development of ATF technologies by providing a platform for new insights and perspectives on different ATF routes based on the most recent studies on ATF fabrication technologies, out-of-pile corrosion tests and irradiation tests using ion beams, in-pile tests, and associated advanced characterization that tries to uncover the mechanisms governing the processing–microstructure–property relationship. We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Accident-Tolerant Fuels: Advanced Coating and Cladding Technologies”.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- ATF coating and cladding materials;
- Advanced characterization of ATF coatings/claddings;
- Performance of ATF coatings/claddings, such as corrosion resistance and radiation resistance;
- ATF fuel materials;
- ATF fuel performance including both in-pile and out-of-pile tests;
- Modeling and simulation on ATF coating/cladding and/or fuels.
Prof. Dr. Xiang Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- LWR cladding
- accident-tolerant fuels
- zirconium-based cladding
- advanced coatings
- FeCrAl coatings
- ceramic coatings
- radiation effects
- corrosion
- advanced characterization
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