Abstract:
A model for the swelling behavior of fission gas in the range of low temperature of irradiated uranium dioxide fuel is established.In this paper,the finite difference method is adopted to compile a computational program and quantitatively calculated the fractions of fission gas as solid solution in UO
2,the density and average radius of intragranular bubbles and their contributions to the swelling of uranium dioxide fuel.in different burn-ups and temperatures of uranium dioxide fuel.The calculation shows that this model can be used to predict the fission gas swelling of uranium dioxide fuel versus burn-up in the range of low temperature.