Growing necessity for efficient nuclear waste management is a driving force for development
of alternative architectures toward fundamental understanding of mechanisms involved in …

The front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle encompasses several chemical and physical
processes used to acquire and prepare uranium for use in a nuclear reactor. These same …

The high radiation field associated with spent nuclear fuel (UIVO2) pellets produces an array
of reactive radical species that impact the corrosion and formation of secondary alteration …

We report the structural properties of ultra-small ThO2 and UO2 nanoparticles (NPs), which
were synthesized without strong binding surface ligands by employing a covalent organic …

The design of a safe spent nuclear fuel repository requires the knowledge of the stability of
the secondary phases which precipitate when water reaches the fuel surface. Studtite is …

Studtite is known to exist at the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle as an intermediate phase
formed in the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. In the thermal decomposition of studtite, an …

The analytical techniques typically utilized in a nuclear forensic investigation often provide
limited information regarding the process history and production conditions of interdicted …

The use of a limited set of signatures in nuclear forensics and nuclear safeguards may
reduce the discriminating power for identifying unknown nuclear materials, or for verifying …

In order to model the fate and transport of particles following a nuclear explosion, there must
first be an understanding of individual physical and chemical processes that affect particle …

The minerals studtite,[UO2 (η2-O2)(H2O) 2]· 2H2O, and metastudtite,[UO2 (η2-O2)(H2O) 2],
are uranyl peroxide minerals that are major oxidative alteration phases of UO2 under …