Nuclear Fuel Modelling and Perspectives on Canadian Efforts in Fuel Development

This chapter discusses how computational efforts span the entire multi‐scale multi‐physics spectrum, ranging from atomistic electronic structure and classical inter‐atomic potential calculations, to meso‐scale simulations of micro‐structural evolution, to continuum scale thermo‐mechanical simulations of fuel performance. A variety of scientific disciplines must be understood in regards to nuclear fuel behavior, including heat transfer, …