Impact of SEM acquisition parameters on the porosity analysis of irradiated U-Mo fuel
In this study, the effect of various scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging parameters including voltage, beam current, and magnification on the porosity analysis of UMo fuel was investigated by varying one parameter at a time during backscattered electron (BSE) micrograph acquisition. Among the parameters assessed, porosity analysis is most sensitive to the SEM voltage. In […]
Microstructural-Level Fuel Performance Modeling of U Mo Monolithic Fuel
As the physics that governs the microstructural evolution of nuclear fuel span various time and spatial scales, to fully understand the fuel behavior inevitably involves atomic to mesoscale resolution that can be difficult to determine experimentally. Microstructural-level modeling and simulations can be used to develop physics-based materials models that can provide physical understanding to inform […]