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COMPARISON OF DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS AND ACTIVATION ENERGIES FOR AG DIFFUSION IN SILICON CARBIDE

  • KIM, BONG GOO (Advanced Nuclear Fuel Development Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • YEO, SUNGHWAN (Advanced Nuclear Fuel Development Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • LEE, YOUNG WOO (Advanced Nuclear Fuel Development Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • CHO, MOON SUNG (Advanced Nuclear Fuel Development Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
  • Received : 2014.12.15
  • Accepted : 2015.05.08
  • Published : 2015.10.25
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Abstract

The migration of silver (Ag) in silicon carbide (SiC) and $^{110m}Ag$ through SiC of irradiated tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel has been studied for the past three to four decades. However, there is no satisfactory explanation for the transport mechanism of Ag in SiC. In this work, the diffusion coefficients of Ag measured and/or estimated in previous studies were reviewed, and then pre-exponential factors and activation energies from the previous experiments were evaluated using Arrhenius equation. The activation energy is $247.4kJ{\cdot}mol^{-1}$ from Ag paste experiments between two SiC layers produced using fluidized-bed chemical vapor deposition (FBCVD), $125.3kJ{\cdot}mol^{-1}$ from integral release experiments (annealing of irradiated TRISO fuel), $121.8kJ{\cdot}mol^{-1}$ from fractional Ag release during irradiation of TRISO fuel in high flux reactor (HFR), and $274.8kJ{\cdot}mol^{-1}$ from Ag ion implantation experiments, respectively. The activation energy from ion implantation experiments is greater than that from Ag paste, fractional release and integral release, and the activation energy from Ag paste experiments is approximately two times greater than that from integral release experiments and fractional Ag release during the irradiation of TRISO fuel in HFR. The pre-exponential factors are also very different depending on the experimental methods and estimation. From a comparison of the pre-exponential factors and activation energies, it can be analogized that the diffusion mechanism of Ag using ion implantation experiment is different from other experiments, such as a Ag paste experiment, integral release experiments, and heating experiments after irradiating TRISO fuel in HFR. However, the results of this work do not support the long held assumption that Ag release from FBCVD-SiC, used for the coating layer in TRISO fuel, is dominated by grain boundary diffusion. In order to understand in detail the transport mechanism of Ag through the coating layer, FBCVD-SiC in TRISO fuel, a microstructural change caused by neutron irradiation during operation has to be fully considered.

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Supported by : National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

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