Low cost, proliferation resistant, uranium—thorium dioxide fuels for light water reactors

• Book ID: 104276158
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Weight: 191 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-6701
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6701(02)85199-2

✦ Synopsis

The KIANA-1 computer program has been developed by the writer to predict the thermal and mechanical behaviour of zircaloy-clad UOs fuel rods during their irradiation life under steady state conditions. In the first part of this paper a short description of the structure of the program is presented, its range of application is described and the physical phenomena, which are modelled, are briefly reviewed. Its second part deals with some examples of KIANA-1 analysis and modelling capabilities.