Fission Gas Behaviour in Water Reactor Fuels ISBN: 9789264196353 Platform/Publisher: OECD / OECD Publishing Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapters; Download: chapters Subjects: Nuclear Energy;
During irradiation, nuclear fuel changes volume, primarily through swelling. This swelling is caused by the fission products and in particular by the volatile ones such as krypton and xenon, called fission gas.