Special features of the distribution of point defects inside uranium dioxide fuel grains with the formation of the rim layer

Atomic Energy

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 102-110

  Likhanskii, V V ^a   Sorokin, A A ^a   Khoruzhii, O V ^a  

^a TROITSK INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND FUSION RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL IRRADIATION; FUEL MICROSTRUCTURE; RADIATION DEFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FISSION PRODUCTS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; POINT DEFECTS; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

NUCLEAR FUELS;

EID: 3543074643     PISSN: 10634258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ATEN.0000027877.38400.df     Document Type: Article

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