Fluorination reaction of uranium dioxide by fluorine

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-141

  Ogata, Shinji ^a   Homma, Shunji ^a   Sasahira, Akira ^b   Kawamura, Fumio ^b   Koga, Jiro ^a   Matsumoto, Shiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorination; Mass transfer; Rate control step; Reprocessing; Shrinking particle model; Un reacted core model; Uranium dioxide

Indexed keywords

FLUORINATION; RATE CONTROL STEP; REPROCESSING; SHRINKING PARTICLE MODEL; UN-REACTED CORE MODEL;

BINARY MIXTURES; DIFFUSION; FLUORINE; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RATE CONSTANTS; THERMAL EFFECTS; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 1942445374     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.2004.9715469     Document Type: Article

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