The challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures designed and
intended to mitigate oxidation of the fuel during a cladding breech of a water-cooled reactor …

Dense U 3 Si 2 pellets with controlled grain structure and enhanced thermal-mechanical
and oxidation properties are synthesized with spark plasma sintering (SPS). Microstructure …

This work reports the synthesis and characterization of the U 3 Si 2 and UO 2 composites
sintered by spark plasma sintering (SPS) with controlled microstructures for accident-tolerant …

Fuel for nuclear reactors with an increased thermal conductivity offers the potential for lower
fuel operating temperatures and reduced fission gas release rates. Uranium dioxide (UO 2) …

Dense nanocrystalline and microcrystalline UO 2 samples with controlled grain structure
and stoichiometry were prepared by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering …

Abstract Dense Cr-doped U 3 Si 2 composite fuels were manufactured by spark plasma
sintering, and the effects of Cr addition on mechanical properties and oxidation resistance …

Effective management of the long-lived radioactive 36 Cl is necessary for the development
of pyrochemical reprocessing of used fuels and also the molten salt reactors in which a large …

UO 2-based nuclear fuel containing integral fuel burnable absorbers (IFBA) is an
economically and technically efficient solution for optimization of nuclear power reactors …

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) as a method for fabricating uranium silicide (U 3 Si 2) fuel
forms has been investigated with a focus on the effect of processing parameters on the …

This paper reports a systematic high-temperature creep behavior of dense U 3 Si 2 pellets
using a spark plasma sintering (SPS) apparatus at elevated temperatures and pressures …