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Crystalline materials for actinide immobilisation /
This book summarises approaches and current practices in actinide immobilisation using chemically-durable crystalline materials such as ceramics and monocrystals. As a result of the increasing worldwide growth of the nuclear industry, long-lived [symbol]-emitting actinides such as Pu, Np, Am and Cm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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London : Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Series on materials for engineering ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction to the actinides. 1.1. Actinide series. 1.2. Natural actinides and minerals. 1.3. Artificial actinides. 1.4. Actinide host-phases
- 2. Current and potential actinide applications. 2.1. Advanced nuclear fuel cycle. 2.2. Inert Pu ceramic fuel. 2.3. Sealed radioactive sources. 2.4. Self-glowing materials. 2.5. Transmutation targets. 2.6. Summary
- 3. Waste actinide immobilisation. 3.1. Ceramic nuclear wasteforms : historical overview. 3.2. Titanate-based ceramics. 3.3. Phosphate-based ceramics. 3.4. Ceramics based on zirconium and hafnium minerals. 3.5. Garnet/perovskite. 3.6. Summary
- 4. Synthesis methods. 4.1. Precursor fabrication. 4.2. Hot Uniaxial Pressing (HUP). 4.3. Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP). 4.4. Pressing-sintering. 4.5. Melting-crystallisation. 4.6. Self-sustaining (Self-propagating) high temperature reactions. 4.7. Single crytal growth. 4.8. Summary
- 5. Examination of highly radioactive samples. 5.1. XRD analysis. 5.2. SEM and EPMA. 5.3. Cathodoluminescence. 5.4. Optical microscopy. 5.5. Mechanical durability. 5.6. Leach and alteration tests
- 6. Radiation damage. 6.1. Ion-irradiation. 6.2. Doping with [symbol]Pu and [symbol]Cm. 6.3. Main points from self-irradiation/radiation damage studies
- 7. What is the future? 7.1. Safety issues. 7.2. Burning (transmutation option). 7.3. Disposal of waste actinides. 7.4. Performance of actinides in disposal environment. 7.5. Conclusions.