Modeling of the Composition of the Gas Phase over Uranium–Plutonium Mononitride Containing Oxygen Impurities and Fission Products
摘要
The composition of the gas phase over uranium–plutonium nitride U0.8Pu0.2N0.99500.005 containing oxygen impurities and fission products after fast neutron irradiation to a burnup of 13.6% heavy atoms (h.a.) was subjected to a thermodynamic analysis in the temperature interval 900–2000 K. In this interval, the accumulation of fission products in the fuel leads to the formation of a multicomponent gas phase containing the following main elements and compounds: fuel species (Pu, PuO, PuN, U, UO, UN), highly volatile species (Cs, N2, Ba, Sr, CsI, BaI, SrI, I), volatile species (Te, Pd, BaO, NdO, LaO, SrO, CeO), low-volatile metals (Nd, Mo, Y, Tc, La, Ce, Zr), and low-volatile nitrides (NdN, LaN, CeN, YN, ZrN). The partial pressures of these components of the gas phase over U0.8Pu0.2N0.99500.005 at the 13.6% burnup as functions of temperature were calculated.