CX-018980: Carbon - Silicon Oxycarbide - Silicon Carbide coated Particle Fuels for Advanced Nuclear Reactors – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Tech, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, proposes to study an entirely new concept for nuclear fuel encapsulation using an amorphous silicon oxycarbide plus carbon system as the inner coating and nanocrystalline silicon carbide plus minor carbon as the outer coating for nuclear fuel kernel particles.