- Patent Title: Fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel composition containing three-layer-structured isotropic nuclear fuel particles with coating layer having higher shrinkage than matrix, material thereof and method for preparing the same
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Application No.: US15751164Application Date: 2016-07-19
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Publication No.: US11004570B2Publication Date: 2021-05-11
- Inventor: Young Wook Kim , Jung Hye Eom , Yu Kwang Seo , Seung Jae Lee
- Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOUNDATION , KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul; KR Daejeon
- Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOUNDATION,KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOUNDATION,KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul; KR Daejeon
- Agency: Park, Kim & Suh, LLC
- Priority: KR10-2015-0111888 20150807
- International Application: PCT/KR2016/007848 WO 20160719
- International Announcement: WO2017/026685 WO 20170216
- Main IPC: G21C3/62
- IPC: G21C3/62 ; C04B35/628 ; C04B35/626 ; C04B35/634 ; C04B35/565 ; C04B35/632 ; C04B35/645 ; C04B38/00 ; G21C3/20 ; G21C21/04

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel material containing three-layer-structured isotropic nuclear fuel particles coated with a ceramic having a composition which has a higher shrinkage than a matrix in order to prevent cracking of ceramic nuclear fuel, wherein the three-layer-structured nuclear fuel particles before coating is included in the range of between 5 and 40 fractions by volume based on after sintering. More specifically, the present invention provides a composition for preparing a fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel containing three-layer-structured isotropic particles coated with the substance which includes, as a main ingredient, a silicon carbine derived from a precursor of the silicon carbide wherein a condition of ΔLc>ΔLm at normal pressure sintering is created, where the sintering shrinkage of the coating layer of the three-layer-structured isotropic nuclear fuel particles is ΔLc and the sintering shrinkage of the silicon carbide matrix is ΔLm; material produced therefrom; and a method for manufacturing the material. The residual porosity of the fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel material is 4% or less.
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