Validation of OFFBEAT against MOX Fuel-Pin Irradiation Experiments in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors with Parameter Sensitivity Analysis
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Sodium-cooled fast reactors are important candidates for improving nuclear-fuel utilization and supporting the transmutation of minor actinides. Reliable simulation of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel pins remains challenging because heat transfer, fission-gas behavior, fuel restructuring, species redistribution, and cladding deformation are strongly coupled. This work presents a multi-case validation and parameter sensitivity assessment of the open-source multidimensional fuel-performance code OFFBEAT for MOX fuel pins irradiated under sodium-cooled fast-reactor conditions. The validation matrix includes the SUPERFACT-1 SF4/16 and Santenay-1 fuel pins irradiated in the Phénix reactor and the B5206 power-to-melt experiment conducted in the Joyo reactor. The americium-bearing SF4/16 pin is selected as the principal case for evaluating long-term irradiation behavior. Santenay-1 extends the validation to annular MOX fuel under higher-power and higher-dose conditions, while B5206 provides a complementary assessment of fuel thermal behavior during a short beginning-of-life high-power irradiation. The 1.5-D simulations account for fuel and cladding heat conduction, gap heat transfer, mechanical deformation, thermal and irradiation creep, cladding swelling, fission-gas behavior through SCIANTIX, porosity migration, and actinide redistribution. Calculated results are compared quantitatively with available post-irradiation measurements, including fission-gas release or plenum gas inventory, fuel-column elongation, cladding diametral deformation, residual fuel–cladding gap, central-hole size, columnar-grain-region diameter, and radial plutonium distribution. For the B5206 experiment, the predicted thermal response and fuel melting extent are compared with the reported post-irradiation observations. Preliminary calculations for SF4/16 predict an end-of-life fission-gas release of approximately 59%, compared with the measured value of approximately 68%. Sensitivity analyses are performed for selected parameters associated with fuel thermal conductivity, initial gap size, fuel and cladding deformation, porosity migration, and fission-gas behavior. The cross-case comparison aims to identify the dominant sources of calculation–experiment discrepancies and to evaluate the transferability of a consistent OFFBEAT modeling approach without case-specific recalibration. The results provide a basis for assessing and improving fuel-performance models for advanced sodium-cooled fast-reactor fuels.

关键词
OFFBEAT; sodium-cooled fast reactor; MOX fuel; fuel-performance modeling; experimental validation; parameter sensitivity; minor actinides
报告人
Wenbin Lan
research assistant Harbin Engineering University

稿件作者
Wenbin Lan Harbin Engineering University
Jiaxuan Liu Harbin Engineering University
Tian Zhang Harbin Engineering University
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    10月30日

    2026

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    11月01日

    2026

  • 09月30日 2026

    初稿截稿日期

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Harbin Engineering University
State Key Laboratory of Marine Thermal Energy and Power
Heilongjiang Nuclear Society
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