Additionally, a zinc activation product ( 65 Zn ) was found, which is thought to be due to the corrosion of magnox fuel cladding in spent fuel pools.
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The zirconium alloy tubes are about 1 cm in diameter, and the fuel cladding gap is filled with helium gas to improve the conduction of heat from the fuel to the cladding.
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The SLCS can also be injected during a LOCA or a fuel cladding failure to adjust the ph of the reactor coolant that has spilled, preventing the release of some radioactive materials.
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Ideally the fertile fuel ( thorium or U-238 ) and other fuel components ( e . g . carrier salt or fuel cladding in solid fuels ) can also be reused for new fuel.
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During power increases in the fuel pellet, the ceramic fuel material expands faster than the fuel cladding, and the jagged edges of the fuel pellet begin to press into the cladding, potentially causing a perforation.
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The first is the inclusion of a thin barrier layer against the inner walls of the fuel cladding which are resistant to perforation due to pellet-clad interactions, and the second is a set of rules created under PCIOMR.
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It is designed, in any emergency, to contain the escape of defence in depth strategy ), the first being the fuel ceramic itself, the second being the metal fuel cladding tubes, the third being the reactor vessel and coolant system.
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A "'fuel element failure "'is a rupture in a nuclear reactor's fuel cladding that allows the nuclear fuel or fission products, either in the form of dissolved radioisotopes or hot particles, to enter the reactor coolant or storage water.
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As a result of overheating the heavy water leaked into the part of the reactor ( the gas circuit ) where the fuel elements are accommodated, the fuel cladding was subject to corrosion and a considerable amount of radioactivity leaked into the primary cooling circuit ( CO 2 gas ).
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In category A ( 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 ) is the fuel cladding, the protective and nonreactive outer layer of the fuel pellet, which uses none of the above features : It is always closed and keeps the fuel and the fission products inside and is not open before arriving at the reprocessing plant.
