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Temperature Inside the Fuel Elements

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Chapter 2 gives the methods for describing steady and transient temperature fields in the fuel elements. Some information is provided regarding influence of the cladding oxidation, hydrogen diffusion, and corrosion product deposition on the temperature fields.

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Kolev, N.I. (2015). Temperature Inside the Fuel Elements. In: Multiphase Flow Dynamics 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15156-4_2

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