Published March 31, 2009
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Journal article
Uranium-molybdenum nuclear fuel plates behaviour under heavy ion irradiation: An X-ray diffraction analysis
Creators
- 1. CEA, DEN, DEC, F-13108 St. Paul Lez Durance Cedex (France)
- 2. Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), Technische Universitaet Muenchen, D-85747 Garching (Germany)
- 3. ID18F/ID22, ESRF, 6, rue J. Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble Cedex (France)
- 4. Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), Technische Universitaet Muenchen, D-85747 Garching bei Muenchen (Germany)
- 5. CRG/D2Am, ESRF, 6, rue J. Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble Cedex (France)
Description
Heavy ion irradiation has been proposed for discriminating UMo/Al specimens which are good candidates for research reactor fuels. Two UMo/Al dispersed fuels (U-7 wt%Mo/Al and U-10 wt%Mo/Al) have been irradiated with a 80 MeV 127I beam up to an ion fluence of 2 x 1017 cm-2. Microscopy and mainly X-ray diffraction using large and micrometer sized beams have enabled to characterize the grown interaction layer: UAl3 appears to be the only produced crystallized phase. The presence of an amorphous additional phase can however not be excluded. These results are in good agreement with characterizations performed on in-pile irradiated fuels and encourage new studies with heavy ion irradiation
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2008.12.032Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2008.12.032;
- PII
- S0022-3115(08)00754-X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Nuclear Materials
- Journal Volume
- 385
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 449-455
- ISSN
- 0022-3115
- CODEN
- JNUMAM
Conference
- Title
- 3. symposium N on nuclear materials
- Acronym
- E-MRS 2008 spring meeting
- Dates
- 26-30 May 2008
- Place
- Strasbourg (France)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40050244
- Subject category
- S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; HEAVY IONS; INTERACTIONS; IODINE 127; ION BEAMS; IRRADIATION; LAYERS; MEV RANGE 10-100; MICROSCOPY; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SPENT FUELS; URANIUM ALLOYS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE ALLOYS; ALLOYS; BEAMS; CHARGED PARTICLES; COHERENT SCATTERING; DIFFRACTION; ENERGY RANGE; ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IODINE ISOTOPES; IONS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; MEV RANGE; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; SCATTERING; STABLE ISOTOPES; TRANSITION ELEMENT ALLOYS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.