Researchers model the way into a nuclear future

(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) The main type of nuclear fuel is the uranium oxide pellet composition. But there is incomplete understanding of fuel transformation mechanisms during nuclear reactor operating, which delays the full implementation of nuclear fuel. In this study, Artem Lunev, Alexey Kuksin, and Sergey Starikov obtained a model to study the macroscopic processes occurring in uranium oxide pellets under operating conditions. The work of Russian researchers is a major ste...