Uranium silicide pellet fabrication by powder metallurgy for accident tolerant fuel evaluation and irradiation

Journal of Nuclear Materials

Volumn 466, Issue , 2015, Pages 728-738

  Harp, Jason M ^a   Lessing, Paul A ^a   Hoggan, Rita E ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PELLETIZING; POWDER METALLURGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICIDES; SINTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUELS; ADVANCED TEST REACTORS; COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRIES; IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORIES; IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT WATER REACTOR FUELS; MICROSTRUCTURAL EXAMINATION; THEORETICAL DENSITY;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84955682728     PISSN: 00223115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.06.027     Document Type: Article

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