Stability of uranium (VI) peroxide hydrates under ionizing radiation

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 229-235

  Rey, Alexandra ^a   Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^b,d   Giménez, Javier ^a   Casas, Ignasi ^a   De Pablo, Joan ^a,c   Ewing, Rodney C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CTM Technologic Centre   (Spain)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amorphization; Ionizing radiation; TEM; Uranyl peroxide

Indexed keywords

AMORPHIZATION; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; MOLECULES; NUCLEAR FUELS; OXIDATION; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROXIDES; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; RADIATION SHIELDING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACCELERATION VOLTAGES; ALPHA RADIOLYSIS; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; GEOLOGIC REPOSITORY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REPOSITORY SITES; SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS; WATER MOLECULE;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERAL PROPERTY; RADIO WAVE; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM;

EID: 67649921186     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.2908     Document Type: Article

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