Modeling Loss-of-Flow Accidents and Their Impact on Radiation Heat Transfer

Figure 5

Incremental mass losses of some WANL and LASL Pewee fuel elements [12]. WANL: fabricated by Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory; LASL: fabricated by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; GED-X: G end, diffusion coating of cores and OD surfaces with NbC followed by bore overcoating with molybdenum; GED: G end, low temperature, methane assisted coated of bores and OD surfaces with NbC; STND: normal four, Thermax, and Varcum matrix; R: standard matrix impregnated with niobium resinate; ADD: standard matrix with 2.5 volume percent NbC powder additive. Numbers on the various corrosion curves are the serial numbers for the elements in specific locations.