Modelling CANDU Fuel Behaviour

Abstract

A program of closely associated experimental activities and fuel performance modelling, spanning several decades, underlies the excellent fuel performance demonstrated by CANDU fuel. Several papers in this Conference describe this ongoing program to understand and represent fuel behaviour during normal operation, upset and severe fuel damage conditions. This paper provides an overview of many of these activities at AECL Research and the suite of validated process submodels and integrated fuel models which have been developed.