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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 325, Issue 1, Pages 61-77Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2003.10.008
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The predominant mode of fission gas release occurs through atomic diffusion to the grain boundaries. In oxide fuels the fission gases initially precipitate as an array of small lenticular bubbles of circular projection. The arrival of additional gas and vacancies causes these bubbles to grow and coalesce into fewer, larger bubbles. Depending on the irradiation conditions and temperatures, these bubbles may develop either as circular lenticular pores or as extended multi-lobed pores. Eventually the pores may intersect the grain edges where pathways may be formed which enable the gas to migrate to the outer geometry of the fuel and hence to the gap and the pin free volume. Recent extensive PIE campaigns on irradiated fuels have provided a large database of inter-granular porosity development and, from these, models of bubble growth, coalescence, morphological relaxation and venting have been developed. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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