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 …

New fuels are being developed for light water nuclear reactors with the initial goal of
improving accident tolerance. More recently, these new fuel systems are also being …

Uranium plays an unquestionable role in the framework of nuclear physics, biology, and
radiopharmacy. Moreover, uranyl ion UO22+ offers an immense variety of applications due …

Al-doped U 3 Si 2 composite fuels with controlled microstructure were fabricated by spark
plasma sintering that display greatly-improved oxidation resistance as compared with …

Using the newly restarted Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility at Idaho National
Laboratories, fresh (unirradiated) U 3 Si 2 fuel pellets were tested under reactivity-initiated …

Epitaxial single crystal thin films of U 3 Si, U 3 Si 5, α− USi 2, and USi 3, alongside poly-
crystalline U 3 Si 2 have all been synthesised using DC magnetron sputtering. These …

Uranium dioxide has been the primary fuel type used in light water reactors for more than 40
years and proven to be reliable and robust. However, the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear …

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 …

In this paper, the fabrication process of UO 2-BeO composite pellets was optimized for
improving the thermal conductivity based on multi-parameter theoretical analyses and …

In this work, the aluminium composite with carbon and boron carbide has been developed
and evaluated for its hardness, corrosion and wear behaviour. High velocity compaction and …