ALFREDO YUUITIRO ABE
3 resultados
Resultados de Busca
Agora exibindo 1 - 3 de 3
Artigo IPEN-doc 29915 Best estimate plus uncertainty analysis of metal-water reaction transient experiment2023 - AVELAR, ALAN M.; DINIZ, CAMILA; CAMARGO, FÁBIO de; GIOVEDI, CLAUDIA; ABE, ALFREDO; CHERUBINI, MARCO; PETRUZZI, ALESSANDRO; MOURÃO, MARCELO B.Uncertainty analysis is applied in the licensing process for nuclear installations to complement best estimate analysis and to verify that the upper bound value is less than the threshold corresponding to the safety parameter of interest. Metal-water reaction is a critical safety phenomenon of water-cooled nuclear reactors at accident conditions, e.g. Loss-Of-Coolant Accidents (LOCA). AISI 348 cladding is able to increase the accident tolerance comparing to Zr-based alloys and differently from other accident tolerant fuel cladding options, there is operational experience of nuclear power plants with stainless steel. In this study, a transient oxidation experiment of AISI 348 by steam was conducted and the major sources of uncertainty were addressed. An evaluation model was developed to calculate the evolution of mass gain during the experiment. Meanwhile, uncertainty propagation of experimental data was performed. The results show that the mass gain predicted by the transient metal-water reaction model lays within the experimental data uncertainty band. Furthermore, the selection of the oxidation kinetics model seems to be important whether the analysis wills to provide conservative results.Artigo IPEN-doc 29914 Assessment of minimum allowable thickness of advanced steel (FeCrAl) cladding for accident tolerant fuel2023 - ABE, ALFREDO; GIOVEDI, CLAUDIA; MELO, CAIO; SILVA, ANTONIO T. eThe ferritic iron-chromium-aluminum (FeCrAl) alloy cladding is considered to be the most promising for near-term application in the ATF framework to replace existing zirconium alloy cladding. Although FeCrAl cladding presents several advantages, it is well known that there are at least two main drawbacks, one is the increased thermal neutron absorption cross-section compared to the current Zr-based cladding resulting in a neutronic penalty and another is tritium higher permeation. In the present study, the minimum allowable thickness of cladding is addressed considering neutronic penalty reduction and the mechanical-structural behavior under the LOCA accident condition. The neutronic penalty assessment was performed using the Monte Carlo code and mechanical-structural performance of the FeCrAl cladding using the TRANSURANUS fuel code, which was modified to consider properly the FeCrAl cladding.Artigo IPEN-doc 29620 Effectiveness of Ni-based and Fe-based cladding alloys in delaying hydrogen generation for small modular reactors with increased accident tolerance2023 - AVELAR, ALAN M.; CAMARGO, FABIO de; SILVA, VANESSA S.P. da; GIOVEDI, CLAUDIA; ABE, ALFREDO; MOURAO, MARCELO B.This study investigates the high temperature oxidation behaviour of a Ni–20Cr-1.2Si (wt.%) alloy in steam from 1200 °C to 1350 °C by Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD). The results demonstrate that exposed Ni-based alloy developed a thin oxide scale, consisted mainly of Cr2O3. The oxidation kinetics obtained from the experimental results was applied to evaluate the hydrogen generation considering a simplified reactor core model with different cladding alloys following an unmitigated Loss-Of-Coolant Accident (LOCA) scenario in a hypothetical Small Modular Reactor (SMR). Overall, experimental data and simulations results show that both Fe-based and Ni-based alloys may enhance cladding survivability, delaying its melting, as well as reducing hydrogen generation under accident conditions compared to Zr-based alloys. However, a substantial neutron absorption occurs when Ni-based alloys are used as cladding for current uranium-dioxide fuel systems, even when compared to Fe-based alloys.