TY - BOOK ID - 7541529 TI - Thermal Performance of High Burn-Up LWR Fuel : Seminar Proceedings, Cadarache, France, 3-6 March 1998 AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. AU - Nuclear Energy Agency. PY - 1999 SN - 128003405X 9786610034055 9264172033 9264169571 PB - Paris : OECD Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear Energy KW - Light water reactors KW - Nuclear fuels KW - Heat KW - Nuclear fuel claddings KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Nuclear Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Thermal properties KW - Conduction KW - Mathematical models KW - France KW - Claddings, Nuclear fuel KW - Atomic fuel KW - Fission fuel KW - Nuclear reactors KW - Reactor fuels KW - Reactors, Light water KW - Fuel KW - Metal cladding KW - Nuclear fuel elements KW - Electromagnetic waves KW - Physics KW - Cold KW - Combustion KW - Fire KW - Temperature KW - Thermochemistry KW - Thermodynamics KW - Radioactive substances KW - Water cooled reactors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7541529 AB - Proper heat removal from the fuel is essential for the safe operation of nuclear reactors used for electricity production. As nuclear fuel is burnt it undergoes important changes, including a degradation of its thermal conductivity. This important phenomenon needs to be reliably predicted in order to make better use of the fuel, a factor which can help to achieve the economic competitiveness required by today's markets. This report communicates the results of an international seminar which reviewed recent progress in the field of nuclear fuel thermal conductivity and sought to improve the models used in computer codes predicting thermal performance. State-of-the-art knowledge is presented for both uranium-oxide and mixed-oxide fuels loaded in water reactors. ER -