Structural Analysis of a Completely Amorphous238Pu-Doped Zircon by Neutron Diffraction

Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings

Volumn 540, Issue , 1999, Pages 349-353

  Fortner, Jeffrey A ^a   Badyal, Yaspal ^b   Price, David C L ^c   Hanchar, John M ^b   Weber, William J ^c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GLASS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; OXIDES;

ALPHA RECOIL DAMAGE; CRYSTALLINE ZIRCON; MICROCRYSTALLINITY;

ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0032592035     PISSN: 02729172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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