Abstract
The CRUD (Chalk River Unidentified Deposit or Corrosion Related Unidentified Deposit) is a fouling deposit of metal or metal oxide on the nuclear fuel cladding under PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) operating conditions and causing the several operational and safety-related problems. The major concerns related to the CRUD are AOA (Axial Offset Anomaly) caused by the accumulation of the boron species inside the porous CRUD from the primary reactor coolant and CILC (CRUD Induced Localized Corrosion) caused by locally increased cladding surface temperature due to the additional thermal resistance of the CRUD layer. The growth of CRUD and the CRUD-related problems are known to be governed by the sub-cooled nucleate boiling phenomena inside the upper part of the reactor core, especially on the hot fuel assembly and hot fuel pin. In the current study, the experimental facility called DISNY (crud DeposItion Simulator for Nuclear energY) was proposed as a testbed to simulate the CRUD growth and to investigate the sub-cooled nucleate boiling heat transfer performance of the CRUD deposited cladding surface under prototypical PWR operating conditions.
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