Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8069426 | Annals of Nuclear Energy | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Nuclear graphite is exclusively produced as a moderator and reflector material in nuclear industry. It has low density, high strength, low thermal expansion, high thermal conductivity, high hardness and good thermal resistance. We simulated graphite structure in a box using LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) to obtain heat flux, atomic displacements, pressures and total energy values for 300Â K (room temperature), 1273Â K (gas-cooled reactor operating temperature) and graphite temperatures in the reactor (from 573Â K to 1123Â K). Also boron coated graphite (BCG) was investigated by the same method and to estimate the same parameters.
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Authors
Turgay Korkut,