Abstract
The influence of porosity on the thermal conductivity of irradiated U0 2 fuel has been determined with the Finite Element Method (FEM). The pore shape and the pore distribution are entered in the FEM program from light-microscopy photographs. The two-dimensional (2D) thermal conductivity in the plane of the photograph is obtain from the FEM calculations. The 2D thermal conductivity, that has no physical meaning, is the lower limit of the three-dimensional (3D) thermal conductivity. For three well defined pore shapes the relation is determined between the 2D and the 3D thermal conductivity. From these computations a simple relation is obtained that transfers the 2D into the 3D thermal conductivity, independent of the pore shape. The influence of porosity on the 3D thermal conductivity of irradiated U0 2 and Nb 20 5, doped U0 2 fuels was computed with the FEM.
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