TY - JOUR
T1 - Calculation of oxygen potential change of irradiated UO2 and UO2-PuO2 mixed oxide fuels using the intra-cation complex model
AU - Fujino, Takeo
AU - Sato, Nobuaki
AU - Yamashita, Toshiyuki
AU - Ouchi, Kinji
PY - 1993/5/2
Y1 - 1993/5/2
N2 - The oxygen potential change of irradiated uranium dioxide and urania-plutonia mixed oxide fuels, which is caused by the formation of solid solutions of some fission product metals with the fuel oxides, was calculated using the intra-cation complex model. It assumes weak-bound complexes between the cations of relatively positive and negative charges with respect to U4+. Partial molar entropy of oxygen, Δ S ̄O2, was derived by differentiating the logarithm of the number of ways of arranging the cationic defects and complexes over the cation sublattices. The fission product metals which dissolve into the fuel matrix were classified into +2, +3 and +4 valence state ion groups, and their effect on Δ G ̄O2 was clarified in the equations of Δ G ̄O2 representation. Comparison of the calculated results with the Δ G ̄O2 values for irradiated fuels as well as for the fuels containing some fission product simulant cations revealed that agreement was good, showing that the Δ G ̄O2 change on irradiation can be expressed as a function of M3+ fraction.
AB - The oxygen potential change of irradiated uranium dioxide and urania-plutonia mixed oxide fuels, which is caused by the formation of solid solutions of some fission product metals with the fuel oxides, was calculated using the intra-cation complex model. It assumes weak-bound complexes between the cations of relatively positive and negative charges with respect to U4+. Partial molar entropy of oxygen, Δ S ̄O2, was derived by differentiating the logarithm of the number of ways of arranging the cationic defects and complexes over the cation sublattices. The fission product metals which dissolve into the fuel matrix were classified into +2, +3 and +4 valence state ion groups, and their effect on Δ G ̄O2 was clarified in the equations of Δ G ̄O2 representation. Comparison of the calculated results with the Δ G ̄O2 values for irradiated fuels as well as for the fuels containing some fission product simulant cations revealed that agreement was good, showing that the Δ G ̄O2 change on irradiation can be expressed as a function of M3+ fraction.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-3115(93)90160-Z
DO - 10.1016/0022-3115(93)90160-Z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0027905535
VL - 201
SP - 70
EP - 80
JO - Journal of Nuclear Materials
JF - Journal of Nuclear Materials
SN - 0022-3115
IS - C
ER -