Review of Fuel Failures in Water Cooled Reactors

Author(s): International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (2010)

An overview of fuel failures in water cooled reactors, including light water reactors, boiling water reactors, and heavy water reactors, as well as their mechanisms and mitigation measures.

An update of a 1998 publication of the same name. Includes descriptions of fuel failures between 1994 and 2006.