Browsing by Subject "Sintering"
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(2014-04-24)The primary fuel used in light water nuclear reactors (LWRs) is uranium dioxide (UO2), which has a low thermal conductivity that causes a large thermal gradient across the fuel pin during operation. One proposed method to ...
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(2010-07-14)The research in this thesis covers the design and implementation of a depleted uranium (DU) powder production system and the initial results of a DU-Zr-Mg alloy alpha phase sintering experiment where the Mg is a surrogate ...