Parfume (particle Fuel Model)

Abstract

PARFUME is an advanced gas-cooled reactor fuel performance modeling and analysis code. It has been developed as an integrated mechanistic code that evaluates the thermal, mechanical, and physio-chemical behavior of fuel particles during irradiation and postulated accident conditions to determine the failure probability of a population of fuel particles given the particle-to-particle statistical variations in physical dimensions and material properties that arise from the fuel fabrication process, accounting for all viable mechanisms that can lead to particle failure. The code also determines the diffusion of fission products from the fuel through the particle coating layers, and through the fuel matrix to the coolant boundary. The subsequent release of fission products is calculated at the fuel element level (release of fission products from the compact or pebble). PARFUME calculates the release fraction as the ratio of the number of atoms released from the fuel element to the amount.