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As Dr. Hashem M. “Hash” Hashemian prepares to step into his term as President of the American Nuclear Society, he is clear that he wants to make the most of this unique moment.
A groundswell in public approval of nuclear is finding a home in growing governmental support that is backed by a tailwind of technological innovation. “Now is a good time to be in nuclear,” Hashemian said, as he explained the criticality of this moment and what he hoped to accomplish as president.
C. M. Cox, F. J. Homan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 317-325
Fuel Element Performance Model | Symposium on Theoretical Models for Predicting In-Reactor Performance of Fuel and Cladding Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28786
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Preliminary models for fuel and cladding performance are described and their predicted behavior compared with experimental data. These models are then applied in a performance analysis of a typical stainless-steel-clad mixed-oxide fuel pin. The results of the analysis indicate that any problems associated with fuel swelling or fuel-cladding interaction for this pin are swamped out by the cladding-swelling effect. The cladding-swelling relationship used requires extrapolation far beyond the fluence range where experimental data are available, thus emphasizing the difficulty encountered in attempting such analyses on LMFBR fuel pins to burnup levels considered economically necessary, but for which materials data are not available.