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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Shan H. Chien, A. R. Wazzan, D. Okrent
Nuclear Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | January 1983 | Pages 69-83
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33103
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A fission gas code, GRABB, is developed to model intragranular and grain boundary fission gas development and release in a fast thermal transient. Transient direct electrical heating fission gas data, test 33, is simulated with GRABB and GRASS-SST. The computations show that accurate fuel modeling requires consideration of grain edge fission gas and a grain surface bubble interlinkage mechanism. Swelling data are slightly better predicted by GRABB than by GRASS-SST. Both codes underestimate the low temperature gas release data. The GRASS-SST code underestimates the intermediate temperature gas release while GRABB predictions are within the scatter of the data. The high temperature gas release is overestimated by GRASS-SST while GRABB underestimates it.