Coupled irradiation-thermal-mechanical analysis of the solid-state core in a heat pipe cooled reactor

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The solid-state core of a heat pipe cooled reactor operates at high temperatures over 1000 K withthermal and irradiation-induced expansion during burnup. The expansion changes the gap thicknessbetween the solid components and the material properties, and may even cause the gap closure, whichthen significantly influences the thermal and mechanical characteristics of the reactor core. This studydeveloped an irradiation behavior model for HPRTRAN, a heat pipe reactor system analysis code, tointroduce the irradiation effects such as swelling and creep. The megawatt heat pipe reactor MegaPowerwas chosen as an application case. The coupled irradiation-thermal-mechanical model was developed tosimulate the irradiation effects on the heat transfer and stresses of the whole reactor core. The resultsshow that the irradiation deformation effect is significant, with the irradiation-induced strains up to2.82% for fuel and 0.30% for monolith at the end of the reactor lifetime. The peak temperatures during thelifetime are 1027:3 K for the fuel and 956:2 K for monolith. The gap closure enhances the heat transferbut caused high stresses exceeding the yield strength in the monolith

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