Plutonium: Aging mechanisms and weapon pit lifetime assessment

JOM

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 19-23

  Martz, Joseph C ^a   Schwartz, Adam J ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ISOTOPES; PLANNING;

PHASE STABILITY; WEAPON PIT LIFETIME ASSESSMENT;

PLUTONIUM;

EID: 0242285560     PISSN: 10474838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-003-0023-0     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. An example of these important measurements includes the series of subcritical tests at the U1a facility at the Nevada Test Site. These measurements to describe the equation-of-state and other dynamic properties of plutonium.
2. An interstitial/vacancy pair is known collectively as a "Frenkel pair." Calculations show that each plutonium decay results in the generation of roughly 2200 Frenkel pairs-2000 from the uranium recoil and 200 from the alpha particle itself. A more extensive account of radiation damage in plutonium is given by W.G. Wolfer, Los Alamos Science, 26(1) (2000), p. 274.
3. J. Ellinger J. Nucl. Mater., 12 (1964), p. 226.
4. S.S. Hecker and L.F. Timofeeva, Los Alamos Science, 26 (1) (2000), p. 244.
5. R. Jeanloz, "Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship," Physics Today, 53 (12) (2000), pp. 44-49.
6. J.M. Hashcke and J.C. Martz, "Plutonium Storage," in the Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999), p. 3740.