Published 2018 | Version v1
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Aliovalent cation substitution in UO2. Electronic and local structures of U1-yLayO2±x solid solutions

  • 1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Dresden (Germany). Molecular Structures
  • 2. European Commission, Karlsruhe (Germany). Joint Research Centre (JRC)
  • 3. CEA, Nuclear Energy Division, Bagnols-sur-Ceze (France). Research Dept. on Mining and Fuel Recycling Processes

Description

We provide here by using U LIII EXAFS and U MIV HERFD-XANES spectroscopies the experimental proof that La(III) for U(IV) substitution in UO2 proceeds not through the creation of O vacancies (as has often been assumed), but by the oxidation of U(IV) to U(V) in proportions equimolar to the substituted trivalent lanthanum.

Part of:
Institute of Resource Ecology. Annual report 2017

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Imprint Title
Institute of Resource Ecology. Annual report 2017
Imprint Pagination
110 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 42
ISSN
2191-8708
Report number
HZDR--085

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