Thermodynamic properties of Ce2(MoO4)3

Thermodynamic data on compounds that could be formed by possible interaction between fuel, fission products, clad components and coolant is required to evaluate the performance of nuclear fuel under nuclear operating conditions. During the reactor operation, the cladding tube experiences a hostile fission-product environment at high temperature which may lead to interactions with cladding material. Cerium is commonly used as an inactive surrogate to plutonium; also it is an important fission product with moderate yield. To assess the fission product clad interactions, data on the thermodynamic stability of compounds of cerium with various clad components such as Fe, Cr, Mo, etc. are required and can be utilized as fuel-clad data as surrogate to Pu. Thermodynamic stabilities (Gibbs energy of formation) of these compounds can be estimated using heat capacity data in the absence of experimental data