The behaviour of the fission gas plays an important role in the fuel rod performance. In a previous work, we presented a physics-based model describing intra- and inter-granular behaviour of radioactive fission gas. The model was implemented in SCIANTIX, a mesoscale module for fission gas behaviour, and assessed against the CONTACT 1 irradiation experiment. In this work, we present the multi-scale coupling between the TRANSURANUS fuel performance code and SCIANTIX, used as mechanistic module for stable and radioactive fission gas behaviour. We exploit the coupled code version to reproduce two integral irradiation experiments involving standard fuel rod segments in steady-state operation (CONTACT 1) and during successive power transients (HATAC C2). The simulation results demonstrate the predictive capabilities of the code coupling and contribute to the integral validation of the models implemented in SCIANTIX.
ZULLO Giovanni;
PIZZOCRI Davide;
MAGNI A.;
VAN UFFELEN Paul;
SCHUBERT Arndt;
LUZZI Lelio;
2022-12-19
KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
JRC128069
1738-5733 (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128069,
10.1016/j.net.2022.07.018 (online),
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