Cover illustration left: Detail of a spent nuclear fuel pellet showing radial cracks and the adjacent Zircaloy cladding. middle: Quantum chemical calculation of the incorporation of selenite into the calcite (104) surface. right: SEM image of Y(OH) 3 nanoparticles precipitated on a calcite cleavage surface. with its 1100 employees is one of the largest energy research centers in Europe. It bund...

LLE Review, Volume 106 83 Introduction Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is an approach to fusion that relies on the inertia of the fuel mass to provide confinement. The confined fuel must reach a high temperature and density to produce enough D + T $ a(3.5 MeV) + n(14.1 MeV) reactions so that the total energy released is much larger than the driver energy required to compress the fuel. The cap...

According to the character of straw pellet fuel cold molding technology, the compressing process was modeled by Finite Element Modeling (FEM) structure analysis tools. This indicated the variation laws between the stress and the strain, and the influence of the structure parameters of the die on the stress and the strain. It’s concluded from the work that when the length-to-diameter ratio of th...