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ZIRAT™
Zirconium Alloy Technology Programme

The Annual ZIRAT Programme is focused on fuel assembly material issues

and open to nuclear utilities and laboratories. In total, 34 organisations were
members in 2019. This programme was started in 1996.

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 Deliverables
A.N.T. International will provide the ZIRAT Members with the following:

• Searchable electronic report version with the following contents:

» High-resolution pdf files with complete ZIRAT Special Topic Reports in colour.
» The files can be copied to a company server, with full read access for everybody with
access to the server.
» The contents from the Special Topic Reports in pdf-format can be printed. Also, the
contents from the pdf-files can be copied and pasted electronically into other documents,
e.g. Word files.
» All figures and tables with A.N.T. International copyright can be used by the member
both internally and externally provided that the source is provided in the caption.
• Three similar Seminars will be held to present the results of the ZIRAT Programme
in USA, in Europe and in China during 2020. The number of full time employees
per member that may attend the seminars is limited to eight (8) people per
organisation.
• Before the seminars, you will have access to:
» The complete ZIRAT Reports in digital format (PDF)
» The contents of all the seminar presentations in high-resolution PDF format
• The language of the ZIRAT Programme will be English.
• The authors will be available for consulting throughout the year. A few telephone
or e-mail consultations requiring no additional work are provided at no additional
cost to Members.

“Excellent conference, very well organised.

Plenty of time for discussions outside of the presentations.”

Heather Cox
Rolls-Royce

“The ZIRAT Programme is very unique. All that is interesting

for the end user, the utility, is here presented.”

Jean-Paul Dalleur
Tractebel

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 ZIRAT25 Programme
The overall objective of the ZIRAT Programme is to:

Interpret published R&D results and nuclear plant experience on

Zr alloy materials to help the customer to make informed decisions for
the improved reliability, safety and economics of operations.

Point out areas where more R&D is needed to resolve potential

issues (indications just seen but no problem yet)

The objective is met through review and evaluation of the

data on zirconium alloys, identification of the most important
new information, and discussion of its significance in
relation to fuel performance now and in the future.

ZIRAT25 Special Topic Report

The Special Topic Report will cover the range from basic information to current
knowledge and be written and explained in such a way that engineers and researchers
not familiar with the topic can easily follow the STR, find and grasp the appropriate
information. This means that the STR could be used by the organisations in the training
of their internal staff with or without the additional assistance of A.N.T. International
staff. The background and proposed content of the Report is discussed in detail below.

Interim Dry Storage of Commercial Spent

Nuclear Fuel

Dry storage of commercial spent nuclear fuel (CSNF) is a

well-established technology, which, over the past 35 years, has
emerged as the technology of choice for interim storage prior
to final disposal of CSNF in geologic formations. This Special
Topic Report will assess the degradation mechanisms that
could potentially affect the performance of spent fuel stored
in a dry, inert environment for periods up to ~100 years. The
principal focus of the reviews is on the fuel rather than on
containers and related storage facilities.
Topics related to long-term, dry storage of CSNF and to its subsequent transport
and handling have been considered in many reports, papers, and reviews in the context
of their applicability for identifying, quantifying, or resolving regulatory requirements. In
the Introduction, today’s regulatory requirements or guidance will be first summarized.
Potential cladding degradation mechanisms will then be reviewed assuming intact fuel
rods, i.e., rods with no through-wall cladding defect(s). In this case, the assessment will

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 focus on maintaining fuel rod integrity or on minimizing degradation of mechanical
properties. Second, fuel rods with through-wall cladding defects will be briefly considered,
given that part of the fuel is exposed to the residual water left in the storage container
after loading and completion of the drying operation. The final section will address the
impact of dry storage operations on post-storage handling and transport.

Content List
1. Overview of Regulations and Regulatory Guidance
2. Intact Fuel Rod Performance
a. Degradation Mechanisms Driving Forces
i. Temperature
1. Peak cladding temperature vs. rod-average temperature
2. Temperature gradients
3. Radiation damage annealing
ii. Cladding Stress
1. Rod internal pressures
2. Radiogenic helium production
3. Fuel swelling
4. Stress gradients
b. Main Mechanisms
i. Thermal Creep
1. Thermal creep of fuel rods (closed systems)
2. Creep rupture
ii. Hydride Reorientation
1. Temperature
2. Hydrogen Content
3. Nucleation/Growth kinetics
4. Cladding stresses
5. Hydride fracture strength vs. Alloy strength
iii. Delayed Hydride Cracking
1. Critical stress intensity factor, KIH
2. Calculation of critical flaw size
3. Dependence of KIH on neutron fluence
iv. Hydrogen Migration
1. CRIEPI Modeling
c. Other Mechanisms
i. Stress Corrosion Cracking
ii. Diffusion-Controlled Cavity Growth
iii. Thermal Fatigue
3. Damaged Fuel Rod Performance – Impact of Residual Water
a. Cladding and fuel oxidation
4. Application to Post-storage Handling and Transport
a. Normal Conditions
b. Accident Conditions
i. Bending
ii. Pinch Loading
5. Summary

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 Accident Tolarant Fuel Concepts –
A Critical Review

The safe, reliable, and economic operation of the nuclear

power has always been a top priority for the nuclear
industry. Continual improvement of technology, including
advanced materials and nuclear fuels, remains central to the
industry’s success. The topic of the inherent tolerance of the
nuclear fuel to severe accidents gain even more significance
after the Fukushima accident. Several industry teams in
collaboration with national laboratories and universities
started conducting research and developing accident tolerant
fuel (ATF) which can tolerate accidents at the same time improving performance during
normal operation and operational transients.
Three general strategies for accident tolerant fuels are being explored: modification
of current state-of-the-art zirconium alloy cladding to further improve oxidation
resistance (including use of coatings), replacement of Zr alloy cladding with an alternative
oxidation-resistant high-performance cladding, and replacement of the monolithic
ceramic oxide fuel with alternative fuel forms.
The report will provide an independent and critical evaluation of the ATF pellet
and cladding concepts/technologies by thoroughly reviewing the topics like:

• industrial scale fabrication/manufacturability with nuclear standard quality;

• performance under normal operation;
• performance under anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs);
• behavior in accident conditions (design-basis accidents (DBA), and beyond design-
basis accidents (BDBA));
• fuel cycle issues (fuel storage, transport, disposal, reprocessing).

The objective of the report is not to prioritize the different ATF cladding concepts or
to down select to the most promising concept. This report will help nuclear utilities in
assessing the ATF cladding evaluations coming from engineering laboratories and fuel
vendors. The utilities may use the report to decide on their own set of priorities and
choose the most appropriate cladding concept based on their specific strategy.

Content List
1. Benefits of ATF
2. ATF Cladding Concepts
a. Cr coated Zirconium Alloy Cladding
b. Advanced steel cladding
c. SiC/SiC composite cladding
d. Coating application methods
e. Manufacturing issues
f. High-temperature oxidation of promising ATF cladding materials

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 3. ATF Fuel Pellet Concepts
a. Doped and High-thermal conductivity UO2
b. Nitride fuel
c. Silicide fuel
d. Carbide fuel
e. Metallic fuels
f. TRISO-SiC-composite pellets
4. ATF performance
a. Performance under normal operation
b. performance under anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs)
c. behavior in accident conditions (design-basis accidents (DBA), and beyond
design-basis accidents (BDBA))
5. Fuel cycle issues (fuel storage, transport, disposal, reprocessing)
6. Licensing and cost considerations

“ZIRAT Reports are excellent”

Michael Brown
Fuelco

“The ZIRAT meeting exceeded my expectations. The most valuable

component of the meeting was the ability to speak directly with the
A.N.T. International experts. The depth of knowledge and understanding
of all speakers in the A.N.T. network is terrific. The size of the meeting was perfect.”

Markus Piro
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

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 Report Authors
The authors are: Dr. Charles Patterson, formerly at GNF, Dr. Kit Coleman, earlier at
Report Authors
AECL, Dr. Tahir Mahmood formerly at GENE, Vallecitos, Dr. Malcolm Griffiths, earlier
at CNL (earlier AECL), Dr. Albert Machiels, retired from EPRI, Dr. Clément Lemaignan
Report Authors
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formerly are: Dr.
at CEA andCharles
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Kit Coleman, earlier at
AECL, Dr. Tahir Mahmood formerly at GENE,
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Coleman, Griffiths,
earlier earlier
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use. Tahir has particular interest and experience in mechanical metallurgy, mechanical behaviour of these
materials for improved fuel reliability. He has actively participated
behaviour of fuel, cladding and structural materials, and in-reactor behaviour of these in various international
nuclear industry
materials research
for improved programs.
fuel reliability. He has actively participated in various international
nuclear industry research programs.
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 during irradiation. He has published
NuStar Nuclear nearly
Power 100 papers on
Technology material
Co., characterisation
Ltd, which is currently
and reactor core materials performance. He is currently adjunct professor at Queens
the only private company in mainland China that is capable of
University, Department of Mechanical
providing and Materials
vendor-independent Engineering.
commercial reactor core analysis
codes and related services. He obtained his degree in 1997 from
Dr. Albert
Nuclear Machiels retired
Engineering in June
Department of 2017
Xi’anfrom the Electric
Jiaotong Power
University, where
Research
he then worked for five years in the area of reactor physics and he
Institute [EPRI] located in Palo Alto, California, where
was responsible
numerical for providing
methods. In 2002, he technical expertise
joined School on topicsScience
of Nuclear related
to
andspent fuel management,
Engineering, Shanghai fuel cycles,
Jiaotong and advanced
University generation
and created a new
technologies. Dr. Machiels has 50 years of involvement in
reactor physics group there. He was the group leader till he quitted various
his professorship in 2011. of nuclear technology R&D, including faculty and program
fields
The focus of Dr.direction
Zhang’s positions
scientific at severalisuniversities
interests and EPRI.
LWR core analysis In 2012,
method and
Dr. Machiels received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his numerous
its practical applications. He is currently the committee member of Nuclear Reactor technical
contributions
Mathematics andto nuclear technology.
Computational He holds
Methods Chemical
Division, and Nuclear
Chinese Nuclear Engineering
Society.
degrees from the Université of Liège, Belgium and a PhD degree in Engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Shaohong Zhang will attend the ZIRAT24 Seminar in Florida, USA.

Professor
Dr. Clément
Dr. Gérard Was Lemaignan,
received
Ducros his ScD
recently born from MITgraduated
in 1949,
retired, spent in
his1980,
entireafter
in which
material
career he
at the
joined
sciencethe Nuclear
from school Engineering
of Mines, Department
St Etienne, at
got the
his
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), University
MS in of
metallurgy
Michigan
from asand
an Assistant
MITirradiated
his PhD Professor.
from He became Full
Polytechnicum Professor in 1990
studying nuclear fuel, in particularof Grenoble.
under severeHe accident
and was during
worked endowed with thecarrier
WalteratJ. the
Weber, Jr. Professor of Center
Sustainable
conditions. Thehis entire
focus of his work was mainlyGrenoble Nuclear
dedicated to the
Energy,
in Environmental
the field of Nuclear and Earth Systems
Metallurgy, on fuelEngineering
behaviour, chair in 2007.
irradiation
understanding of fission product behaviour through experimental
He holdsand
damage appointments
RPV in Nuclearand
embrittlement Engineering
mostly and Radiological
focussing on Zr alloy
programmes (release from the fuel, transport within the reactor
Sciences,
behaviour and Materials
under Science
irradiation and
and Engineering
corrosion. at theform
Retired University
CEA, of
coolant system and behaviour into the containment). He was in
Michigan and has as
he acts currently served as Director
scientific of the Michigan
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nuclearEnergy Institute,
particular in chargeand of separate for various
effect experiments agencies
conducted orby
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Emeritus Engineering and Paris)
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interpretation nuclear
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damage Department
and fracture,twice.
Prof.Professor
Lemaignan Was’holds
research3 is focused
patents, has on materials
authored 3 for
the framework of the international PHEBUS-FP programme. Following the Fukushima
advanced
books, nuclear energy systems and radiation materials science,
He including environmental
accident6 in
book
2011,chapters, and over
he participated 80several
in peer-reviewed articles.
international projects has
or been editorasfor
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technical
effects
Journal onofmaterials,
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beam 15surface modification of materials and Prof.
expert for OECD IAEA. Hefor more
published more years.100
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on thisandtopic teaching,
in scientific
nuclear
Lemaignanfuels. Most recently his group has led among
the development of ionaward
irradiation
from as a
literature orhas received many
in international distinctions,
conference proceedings. them the Kroll ASTM in
surrogate
2001. for neutron irradiation in reactor structural materials, and he has utilised that
capability to uncover the mechanism of irradiation assistedDr. stress corrosion
Gérard Ducros cracking of the
will attend
reactor core structural materials. Accident Tolerant Fuel Seminar in Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Martin Steinbrück graduated in chemistry at the Friedrich

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He has been at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe FZK) since 1991; in that time
he worked mainly in the field of Nuclear Safety Research. Dr.
Steinbrück is leader of the group High-Temperature Materials
Chemistry at the Institute for Applied Materials. He is in charge of
the KIT project QUENCH dealing with hydrogen source term and
coolability during quenching of an overheated core in the framework of the KIT program
on Nuclear Safety. His special interest is the materials behaviour as well as oxidation of
and interactions between the various core components at very high temperatures.
Dr. Steinbrück is organiser of the annual International QUENCH Workshop
(http://quench.forschung.kit.edu/index.php).

Dr. Martin Steinbrück will attend the

Accident Tolerant Fuel Seminar in Stockholm, Sweden

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 Manager at EPRI.

Price and Terms of Payment

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