Characterization of zirconia-thoria-urania ceramics by X-ray and electron interactions

Journal of Nuclear Materials

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-48

  Curran, Gini ^a   Sevestre, Y ^a,b   Rattray, Wendy ^a   Allen, Patrick ^c   Czerwinski, K R ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ZIRCONIA;

PHASE STRUCTURES;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0242335089     PISSN: 00223115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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