Investigating the mechanical behaviour of Fukushima MCCI using synchrotron Xray tomography and digital volume correlation

Abstract A primary target towards the clean-up operation of the Fukushima disaster is the retrieval of Molten Core-Concrete Interaction (MCCI) products, presently residing on the basement of the damaged nuclear reactor Units 1–3. MCCI is a fusion of materials, composed of both nuclear fuel cladding...

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Main Authors: Charilaos Paraskevoulakos, Joachim Paul Forna-Kreutzer, Keith R. Hallam, Christopher P. Jones, Thomas B. Scott, Clemence Gausse, Dong Liu, Christina Reinhard, Claire L. Corkhill, Mahmoud Mostafavi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:npj Materials Degradation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-022-00264-y