Abstract
Recommendations for calculating the thermal creep properties of uranium dioxide for fuel element serviceability analysis programs are developed on the basis of a physical model. The deformation processes in the model include diffusion and diffusion-controlled motion of dislocations. It is shown on the basis of the analysis of the thermodynamics of point defects in ionic crystals that the diffusion of ions is controlled by a vacancy mechanism and that the diffusion coefficient depends on the temperature and oxygen coefficient. The model includes the influence of temperature, stress, fuel density, grain size, and oxygen ratio on the creep rate. The relations obtained in the this work have made it possible to improve by approximately a factor of 10 the agreement between the calculations and experimental data as compared with the empirical relation used previously to describe the characteristics of creep.
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