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Accident Tolerant Fuel with Chromium-Coated Fuel-Rod Cladding
The accident at the Fukushima NPP (Japan) showed the particular danger of a steam-zirconium reaction arising when the temperature of the fuel-rod cladding rises after loss of coolant. Work on the development o...
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Prospective Accident-Tolerant Uranium-Molybdenum Metal Fuel
Selection criteria based on density and uranium capacity are presented for fuel to be used in accident-tolerant fuel rods. The optimal composition of the uranium-molybdenum alloy is proposed based on studies a...
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Metallic Uranium: Protective Material with Enhanced γ-Ray Absorption
Research performed at the Bochvar All-Russia Research Institute for Inorganic Materials (VNIINM) and the All-Russia Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) on the development of the TUK-117 multipu...
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Extra-Heavy Concrete and Cermet: Protective Materials with Enhanced γ-Ray Absorption
This article is devoted to the development and study of new protective materials containing depleted uranium dioxide for increasing the capacity for γ-ray absorption. The materials were developed for use in mu...
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Neutron diffraction analysis of atomic displacements in δ-Pu-Ga alloys upon long-term self-irradiation
The process of self-irradiation of a Pu-Ga alloy has been studied by the neutron-diffraction method with the determination of the crystal structure and root-mean-square atomic displacements 〈u 2〉 ...
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Magnetism and anomalous properties of plutonium
It is shown that because of their high magnetic susceptibility δ plutonium and its alloys are close to magnetic instabilities; dynamic effects of short-range magnetic order which are associated with the fluctu...
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The possibility of repair of metallurgical ladle lining
Metallurgists have always dreamed of an “eternal ladle”, i.e., the possibility of repairing a metallurgical ladle without removing its old lining. However, the use of thick mixtures for this purpose is problem...
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The effect of alloying on thermal displacements in uranium and plutonium alloys and the mechanism of stabilization of high-temperature phases by alloying
The effect of light alloying elements in heavy matrices (Mo and Nb in U; Al, Ga, and Ce in Pu) on the magnitude of mean-square thermal atomic displacements <u 2> has been analyzed. It is shown that light atoms de...
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Alloy of depleted uranium: Material for γ-protection of shipment packing sets
The effect of thermal action on the structure and physical and mechanical properties of an alloy based on depleted uranium and used for biological protection from ionizing radiation in shipment packing sets fo...
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Effect of Heat Treatment on the Carbon Distribution in Zirconium and the Alloy Zr + 2.5%Nb
x-Ray diffraction and Auger spectroscopy are used to establish that vacuum annealing of zirconium at 900–1200°C is accompanied by the formation of zirconium oxycarbide on the metal surface. The tagged-atom met...
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Carbon Diffusion in Uranium during Thermal Reprocessing in Vacuum
It is shown that during annealing of uranium samples at 550–950°C in a 10–3 Pa vacuum carbon impurity diffuses from the interior volume to the surface of the samples. The diffusion flux of carbon directed toward ...
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Fundamentals of the Physical Metallurgy of Uranium, Plutonium, and Their Alloys
Fundamentals of the physical metallurgy of uranium, plutonium, and other metals of the actinide series and alloys based on them created by A. A. Bochvar and developed by his disciples are presented.
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Decomposition of a metastable solid solution in uranium-molybdenum alloy
The process leading to the decomposition of a metastable solid solution (γ2 phase) in uranium alloys with 13.6 and 20 at.% molybdenum under isothermal holding conditions at the temperature of the phase regions α+...
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Polygonized structure formation in polymorphic transitions in uranium
Polymorphic transformations in uranium are considered in relation to the formation of polygonized structures in the α and β phases. Dislocational polygonized structures arise in γ→β and β→α transitions in a fa...
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Structural features of martensite α-phases in alloys of uranium with transition metals
The structures and formation kinetics are considered for martensite α phases in diffusionless transformation of the γ and β phases of alloys between uranium and transition metals. The general features of the {...
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Heat exchange of a bank of tubes in the transverse flow of liquid complicated by the formation of the solid phase of the heat carrier
Results of numerical and experimental study of the heat exchange process are considered as applied to the calculation of helical heat exchangers operating under conditions of unavoidable formation of the solid...
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Lamp-excited dye laser with diffraction divergence
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Carboxylic acids ofPopulus balsamifera
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New evaporators of cryogenic systems for storage and gasification
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Study of hydraulic resistance and heat transfer in perforated-plate heat exchangers
An experimental study is made of the hydraulic resistance and heat transfer in heat exchangers made of perforated plates with different internal geometries. Generalizing theoretical relations are obtained.