Thermal energy transport in oxide nuclear fuel

DH Hurley, A El-Azab, MS Bryan, MWD Cooper… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To efficiently capture the energy of the nuclear bond, advanced nuclear reactor concepts
seek solid fuels that must withstand unprecedented temperature and radiation extremes. In …

Synchrotron radiation techniques and their application to actinide materials

R Caciuffo, GH Lander, G van der Laan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Research on actinide materials, both basic and applied, has been greatly advanced by the
general techniques available from high-intensity photon beams from x-ray synchrotron …

Atomistic simulations of nuclear fuel with machine learning interatomic potentials

ET Dubois, J Tranchida, J Bouchet, JB Maillet - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
We present the development of machine-learning interatomic potentials for uranium dioxide
UO 2. Density functional theory calculations with a Hubbard U correction were leveraged to …

High-field ultrasound study of elastic constants and possible magnetic symmetry transformations in

EA Tereshina-Chitrova, LV Pourovskii, S Khmelevskyi… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In this study, we probe the coupling between magnetism and lattice dynamics in UO 2, a 3 k
antiferromagnet that undergoes magnetic ordering below its Néel temperature (TN) of 30.8 …

A Non-Equilibrium Nucleation Model to Calculate the Density of State and Its Application to the Heat Capacity of Stoichiometric UO2

IL Ferreira - International Journal of Thermophysics, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, the molar specific heat capacity is theoretically predicted for stoichiometric UO
2.00 in the temperature range from 0 K to 3000 K. The λ-phase transition at 2670±30 K and …

Mechanism of Non-Coplanar Magnetic Ordering Assisted by the Jahn–Teller Effect in UO2

R Shiina - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2022 - journals.jps.jp
The superexchange (SE) and the Jahn–Teller (JT) interactions in the Mott insulator UO2 are
studied for a model composed of one-f-electron Γ8 basis states. It is shown that the SE …

Ferromagnetic Crossover within the Ferromagnetic Order of U7Te12

P Opletal, H Sakai, Y Haga, Y Tokiwa… - Journal of the Physical …, 2023 - journals.jps.jp
We investigate the physical properties of a single crystal of uranium telluride U7Te12. We
have confirmed that U7Te12 crystallizes in the hexagonal structure with three nonequivalent …

Impact of dynamic Jahn-Teller effect on magnetic excitations, lattice vibration, and thermal conductivity in UxTh1-xO2 system

S Adnan, Z Hua, P Upreti, H Ma, E Nosal… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Vibrational and magnetic properties of single-crystal uranium-thorium dioxide (UxTh1-xO2)
with a full range of 0< x< 1 is investigated. Thorium dioxide is a diamagnet whose thermal …

Field-Driven Jahn–Teller Effect and Domain Transition in Non-Coplanar Antiferromagnet UO2

R Shiina - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2023 - journals.jps.jp
Effect of magnetic field on the non-coplanar triple-Q magnetic order in the Mott insulator UO2
was investigated. Making use of the microscopic model for the localized 5 f electrons, we …

Characterization of a small-scale prototype detector with wide dynamic range for time-resolved high-energy X-Ray applications

KS Shanks, HT Philipp, JT Weizeorick… - … on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present characterization measurements of a fast-framing, wide-dynamic-range x-ray
area detector intended for high-energy applications (≥ 2-keV photons). The MM-PAD-2.1 …