Properties of plutonium and its alloys for use as fast reactor fuels

Journal of Nuclear Materials

Volumn 383, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 112-118

  Hecker, Siegfried S ^a   Stan, Marius ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

64.30.Pu; 71.10.Pu

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ALUMINA; BINARY ALLOYS; CERIUM; COBALT; CRYSTALLIZATION; EUTECTICS; FAST REACTORS; FUELS; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; IRON RESEARCH; LIQUID METALS; LIQUIDS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALLIC SOAPS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PLUTONIUM; SMELTING; SOLID SOLUTIONS; SOLIDIFICATION; SOLUTIONS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL SPRAYING; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; ZIRCONIUM;

64.30.PU; 71.10.PU; BURN-UP; CERAMIC FUELS; EUTECTIC ALLOYS; LOW MELTING; METALLIC FUELS; NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSIONS; PLUTONIUM FUELS; REACTOR FUELS; SWELLING RATES;

ALLOYS;

EID: 56149127807     PISSN: 00223115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2008.08.033     Document Type: Article

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