摘要 |
<p>A method of manufacturing nuclear fuel elements comprising fuel rods whose cladding tubes are provided with an internal liner layer to obtain PCI resistance in the nuclear fuel element comprises carefully choosing parameters for heat treatment of the inner component even from the machining of an ingot of the inner component. The internal layer of zirconium or a zirconium alloy suitable as inner layer in a PCI-resistant cladding is manufactured, from the fabrication of an ingot of the inner component up to the completion of a cladding tube, comprising forging, rolling, extrusion, heat treatment and final heat treatment, in such a way that the temperature in the inner component never exceeds the temperature when an incipient phase transformation to beta phase takes place.</p> |